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ANCESTRY 



THE OBJECTS OF THE 
HEREDITARY SOCIETIES AND THE MILITARY AND NAVAL ORDERS 

OF THE United States 



The Requirements for Membership Therein. 



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COMPILER BY 




EUGENE ^ZIEBER. V> 



second edition. 






published by 
the department of heraldry, 

OF 

The Bailey, Banks & Biddle Company, 

philadelphia. 

1895. 



Copyrighted, 1895 

BY 

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INDEX. 

Aztec Club of 1847 .... 

Colonial Order of the Acorn . 
Daughters of the American Revolution 
Daughters of the Cincinnati 
Daughters of the Revolution . 
General Society of the War of 181 2 
Grand Army of the Republic 
Huguenot Society of America . . . 

Medal of Honor Legion . . 

Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States . 
National Society of the Children of the American Revolution 
National Society of New England. Women .... 
Naval Order of the United States ... 
Netherlands Society of Philadelphia 

Ohio Society of New York . 

Regular Army and Navy Union of the United States of 

America 

Society of the Army of the Cumberland 
Society of the Army of the Potomac 
Society of the Army of the Tennessee 
Society of the Cincinnati . 
Society of Colonial Wars . 
Society of Mayflower Descendants 
Society of Sons of the ^Revolution 



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Society of the United States Daughters — 1776-1812 ... 42 

Society of the United States Daughters — 1812 . . 43 

Sons of Veterans, United States of America .... 44 

The Army of West Virginia 45 

The Aryan Order of St. Georgii of the Holy Roman Empire 

in the Colonies of America 46 

The Colonial Society of Massachusetts 47 

The Holland Society of New York 48 

The Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United 

States 49 

The National Mary Washington Memorial Association . . 52 

The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America 53 

The New England Society in the City of New York . . 66 

The Order of Washington 66 

The Pennsylvania-German Society ....... 67 

The Pilgrim Society 67 

The Society of Sons of the American Revolution ... 68 

The Society of the Army of Georgia 69 

The Society of the Army of the Ohio =70 

The Society of the Colonial Dames of America . . . .71 

The Military Society of the War of 1812 72 

The Sons of Delaware 75 

The St. Nicholas Society of the City of New York ... 76 

United States Daughters — 1776-1812 76 

The Colonial Society 77 

Woman's Relief Corps 77 

Acts of Congress relating to the Insignia of War Societies 79 



Aztec Club of 1847. 

Founded October 13th, 1847. 

"OBJECT. 

"This Association formed and founded in the City of Mexico, 
in the year 1847, by officers of the United States Army, shall be 
continued in perpetuity as 'The Aztec Club of 1847,' with a view to 
cherish the memories and keep alive the traditions that cluster about 
the names of those officers who took part in the Mexican War of 
1846, '47, and '48." 

"ELIGIBILITY. 

''First. — Those officers who inaugurated the Aztec Club in the 
City of Mexico on the 13th of October, 1847, numbering 160 
members and the two honorary members named in Articles I. and 
IV. of the Constitution published in March, 1848 ; and 

''Seco7id. — Those officers who by resolution of 1871 became 
eligible to membership since that date, having served in some part 
of Mexico during the war with that country, and who have been or 
may hereafter be elected members. The names of members 
admitted upon personal application v/ill be enrolled as Primary 
Members on a list (Number One) to be arranged permanently, in 
numerical series, in the order of date of admittance — not to be altered 
except by future additions or by dismissals for cause. 

" Third. — To extend to the memory of comrades killed in battle 
in Mexico or who died of wounds received in Mexico prior to the 
formation of our Club, all the honorable distinctions pertaining to 
membership in the Club, it was resolved in 1883 that upon application 



by the eldest son or nearest lineal descendant of the officer so killed 
such son or lineal descendant may be eligible to membership as 
representing his dead relative. When such representative has been 
duly elected and qualified, the name of the dead officer and the battle 
where he was killed should be entered on List Number One, in a 
separate group with his representative, in the order of election. 

''Fourth. — As provided in 1887, the son or nearest blood 
relative of any deceased officer who never himself applied for 
membership (though eligible thereto because of personal service in 
Mexico during the war) may make written application for admission 
as the representative of his father or blood relative. ... If elected 
and qualified the name of such dead officer shall also be enrolled on 
List Number One, in the same numierical series, in a separate group, 
and in the order of the date of admittance of the lineal descendant. 

''Fifth.— To provide for the continuance of the Club in con- 
formity with the resolution of September, 1874, each Primary Member 
admitted upon personal application may nominate as his successor 
his son or a blood relative, who during the life of the Primary shall 
be known as an Associate Member, and entitled to all the privileges 
of the Club, except that of voting, and upon the death of the Primary 
shall be entitled as his representative to full membership. Should a 
Primary die without having named his successor, his son (first) or 
nearest blood relative (next) may, on written application, be nomi- 
nated as his representative ; . . . but no one proposed for an 
Associate Member or as the representative of a deceased member 
shall be voted for until the Examining Committee shall report him 
eligible and qualified to join the Club. If minors are proposed, their 
names will be retained for future action until they attain their 
majority. ... A Representative Member may present a blood 
relative of the Primary Member he represents as his associate, and, 
if elected, he will be entitled to the privileges of an Associate Mem- 
ber, and upon the death of the representative may himself become a 
Representative Member, and in like manner nominate as his associate 
the nearest living blood relative of the dead Primary Member, if there 
be one qualified to become an acceptable representative of said 
Primary. When no such lineal descendant of the Primary Member 
exists, the succession for such member of the Aztec Club will cease." 



COLONIAL ORDER OF THE ACORN. 

Instituted January 30th, 1894. Incorporated February 3d, 1894. 

" OBJECTS. 

*'To cherish and perpetuate American traditions and associa- 
tions, and to promote patriotism and loyalty to our National Insti- 
tutions." 

"ELIGIBILITY. 

** It is a pre-requisite to admission that a candidate shall be a de- 
scendant, in the male line, of a forefather resident prior to July 4th, 
1776, in one of the North American Colonies, that afterwards became 
the thirteen original States, and shall be nominated for membership 
and seconded by members of the Order." 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

Organized October nth, 1890, 

"OBJECTS. 

" (i) To perpetuate the memory and the spirit of the men and 
women who achieved American Independence, by the acquisition and 
protection of historical spots and the erection of monuments ; by the 
encouragement of historical research in relation to the Revolution and 
the publication of its results ; by the preservation of documents and 
relics, and of the records of the individual services of Revolutionary 
soldiers and patriots, and by the promotion of celebrations of all 
patriotic anniversaries. 

" (2) To carry out the injunction of Washington in his farewell 
address to the American people, ' To promote, as an object of 
primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowl- 
edge,' thus developing an enlightened public opinion, and affording 
to young and old such advantages as shall develop in them the largest 
capacity for performing the duties of American citizens. 

" (3) To cherish, maintain, and extend the institutions of Amer- 
ican freedom, to foster true patriotism and love of country, and to aid 
in securing for mankind all the blessings of liberty. ' ' 



•' ELIGIBILITY. 

"Any woman may be eligible for membership who is of the age 
of eighteen years, and who is descended from a man or woman who, 
with unfailing loyalty, rendered material aid to the cause of Independ- 
ence ; from a recognized patriot, a soldier or sailor or a civil officer, 
in one of the several Colonies or States, or of the United Colonies or 
States ; provided, that the applicant be acceptable to the Society. 

' ' Every applicant for membership must be endorsed by at least 
one member of the National Society, and her application shall then 
be submitted to the Registrars-General, who shall report on the ques- 
tion of eligibility to the General Board of Management, when the 
question of admission shall be voted upon by the Board by ballot, and 
if a majority of said Board approves such application, the applicant, 
after payment of the initiation fee, shall be enrolled as a member of 
the National Society." 



DAUGHTERS OF THE CINCINNATI. 

Incorporated December 27th, 1895. 

" OBJECTS. 

"To renew and foster among its members the friendships formed 
and cemented amid the trying ordeals of the War of the Revolution, 
in the Camp, and on the Battlefield, by their ancestors, who, by wise 
leadership and sturdy bravery, achieved the Independence of the 
American Colonies, and established the Government of the United 
States. 

"To advance and encourage investigation and study of the his- 
tory of the Revolution, its causes and results, and to instil in the 
minds of the rising generation a knowledge of, and reverence for, 
the intelligent wisdom which planned, and the unconquerable spirit 
and patient, unswerving determination which successfully carried on, 
the struggle for liberty against overwhelming force and Old World 
prejudice. 

"To cherish the memory and record the deeds of the noble 



women who, with heroic self-abnegation, untiring and unflinching 
devotion, influenced, encouraged and assisted the Patriot Cause. 

' ' To commemorate by celebrations and tablets the achievements 
of our ancestors in the Revolution, and to gather and carefully pre- 
serve documents and relics relating to the Revolutionary period." 



"ELIGIBILITY. 



" ist. Descent from a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, 
admitted in his own right as an original member, in pursuance of the 
Institution of the Society, as adopted May 13, 1783, at Major-Gen- 
eral Baron de Steuben's headquarters at Fishkill-on-the- Hudson, or 
from an offlcer of the Revolution who died in the service and whose 
offspring were eligible to original membership under such Institution. 

** 2d. Descent from one of the Incorporators of this Society. 

"3d. An invitation from the Society issued by unanimous vote 
of the Board of Managers, upon the application of three members 
of the Society, to whom the applicant must be favorably and well 
known. 

' ' 4th. The applicant must be over the age of eighteen years, 
and of good moral character." 



DAUGHTERS OF THE REVOLUTION. 

Organized September 9th, 1891. 
"OBJECTS. 

' ' To keep alive among its members and their descendants, and 
throughout the community, the patriotic spirit of the men and 
women who achieved American Independence ; to collect and secure 
for preservation the manuscript rolls, records and other documents 
relating to the War of the American Revolution, and provide a 
place for their preservation and a fund for their purchase ; to en- 
courage historical research in relation to such Revolution and to 
publish Its results ; to promote and assist in the proper celebration 
of prominent events relating to or connected with the War of the 



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Revolution ; to promote social intercourse and the feeling of fellow- 
ship among its members ; ' and provide a home for and furnish 
assistance to such as may be impoverished, when it is in their power 
to do so.* " 

" ELIGIBILITY. 

* * Any woman above the age of eighteen years shall be eligible 
to membership in the ' Daughters of the Revolution,' who is a lineal 
descendant from an ancestor who as a military or naval or marine 
officer, soldier, sailor or marine in actual service under the au- 
thority of any of the Thirteen Colonies or States, or of the Conti- 
nental Congress, and remaining always loyal to such authority, or a 
descendant of one who signed the Declaration of Independence, or 
of one who as a member of the Continental Congress or of the 
Congress of any of the Colonies or States, or as an official ap- 
pointed by or under the authority of any such representative 
bodies actually assisting in the establishment of American Inde- 
pendence by service rendered during the War of the Revolution, 
becoming thereby liable to conviction of treason against the Gov- 
ernment of Great Britain, but remaining always loyal to the au- 
thority of the Colonies or States, shall be eligible to membership in 
this Society." 



GENERAL SOCIETY OF THE WAR OF 1812. 

Organized September 14th, 1814. 

" OBJECTS. 

*' WhereaSy In the Providence of God, victory having crowned 
the forces of the United States of America, in upholding the princi- 
ples of the nation against Great Britain in the conflict known as the 
War of 1812 ; we, the survivors and descendants of those who par- 
ticipated in that contest, have joined together to perpetuate its mem- 
ories and victories, to collect and secure for preservation, rolls, rec- 
ords, books and other documents relating to that period ; to encour- 
age research and publication of historical data, including memorials 
of patriots of that era in our National history, to care for, and, when 



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necessary, assist in burying actual veterans of that struggle, to cher- 
ish maintain and extend the institutions of American freedom and 
foster true patriotism and love of country." 



"ELIGIBILITY. 



*' Any male person above the age of twenty-one (21) years, who 
participated in, or who is a lineal descendant of one who served dur- 
ing the War of 18 12, in the army, navy, revenue -marine or privateer 
service of the United States, offering proof thereof satisfactory to 
the State Society to which he may make application for membership 
and who is of good moral character and reputation may become a 
member of this Society when approved of by said State Society under 
such regulations as it may make for passing upon applications for 
membership. 

** In case of the failure of lineal descendants of an actual par- 
ticipant in the war on behalf of the United States, one collateral 
representative who is deemed worthy, may be admitted to represent 
the said participant. 

''Provided, always, that such representation shall be limited to 
the descendant of either a brother or sister of the participant in the 
war, in right of whose services application for membership is made. 

' ' Every application for membership shall be made in writing, 
upon such form as may be set forth by this Society for that purpose, 
which application shall be made in duplicate, and one copy thereof 
filed in the archives of the General Society." 



GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC. 

Organized March, 1866. First Post April 6th, 1866. 

"OBJECTS. 

" I . To preserve and strengthen those kind and fraternal feel- 
ings which bind together the soldiers, sailors, and marines who 
united to suppress the late Rebellion, and to perpetuate the memory 
and history of the dead. 



" 2. To assist such former comrades in arms as need help and 
protection, and to extend needful aid to the widows and orphans of 
those who have fallen. 

"3. To maintain true allegiance to the United States of Amer- 
ica, based upon a paramount respect for, and fidelity to, its Constitu- 
tion and Laws ; to discountenance whatever tends to weaken loyalty, 
incites to insurrection, treason, or rebellion, or in any manner impairs 
the efficiency and permanency of our free institutions ; and to encour- 
age the spread of universal liberty, equal rights, and justice to all 
men." 

"ELIGIBILITY. 

"Soldiers and sailors of the United States Army, Navy, or 
Marine Corps, who served between April 12th, 1861, and April 9th, 
1865, in the war for the suppression of the Rebellion, and those 
having been honorably discharged therefrom after such service, and 
of such State regiments as were called into active service and subject 
to the orders of U. S. General Officers, between the dates men- 
tioned, shall be eligible to membership in the Grand Army of the 
Republic. No person shall be eligible to membership who has at 
any time borne arms against the United States." 



HUGUENOT Society of America. 

Organized April 12th, 1883. Incorporated June 12th, 1885. 
"OBJECTS. 

^'Firstly. — To perpetuate the memory and to foster and promote 
the principles and virtues of the Huguenots. 

''Secondly. — To publicly commemorate at stated times the prin- 
cipal events in the history of the Huguenots. 

^'Thirdly. — To discover, collect, and preserve all still-existing 
documents, monuments, etc., relating to the genealogy or history of 
the Huguenots of America. 

''Fourthly. — To gather by degrees a library, for the use of the 
Society, composed of all obtainable books, monographs, pamphlets, 
manuscripts, church and other registers, relating to the Huguenots. 



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''Fifthly,— To cause statedly to be prepared and read before the 
Society ; papers, essays, etc. , especially on obscure or disputed 
questions in Huguenot history or genealogy, their setdements, 
biographies, public acts, influence on society, arts, commerce, and 
politics of America especially, and of other countries where they 
settled. 

''Sixthly. —To cause to be prepared and published, when the 
requisite materials have been discovered and procured, from time to 
time, a series of octavo volumes entided : ' Collections of the Hugue- 
not Society of America.' 

* ' An Annual Bulletin shall also be published to correspond in 
general uniformity with the ' Collections.' It shall contain the pro- 
ceedings of the Society, notices of papers read before the Society, or 
abstracts of them, or the papers in full, at the discretion of the Pub- 
lication Committee It shall also contain the Annual Financial 
Statement of the Treasurer and such a brief review of the doings of 
other Huguenot Societies as the Committee may deem it advisable 
to print. 

"Seventhly.— To establish branches of this Society in other 
American cities and to encourage the foundation of similar Societies 
in other countries where Huguenots have taken refuge, in order to 
arrive, with their aid, at a correct estimate of the combined influence 
of the Huguenots upon the history of the world at large." 

"ELIGIBILITY. 

" Sec. I.— The membership of the Society shall be as follows : 

" Firstly .— KVi descendants in the direct male lines of the Hugue- 
not families that emigrated to America prior to the promulgation of 
the Edict of Toleration, November 28th, 1787. 

"Secondly —K\\ descendants through the female lines of the 
Huguenot families that emigrated to America prior to the promulga- 
tion of the Edict of Toleration, November 28th, 1787. 

" 77/zV^/y.-- Representatives of other French families whose pro- 
fession of the Protestant faith is anterior to the promulgation of the 
Edict of Toleration, November 28th, 1787. 

"Fourthly.— Wntei-s who have made the history, genealogy, 



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principles, etc., of the Huguenots a special subject of study and 
research, to whatever nationality they may belong. 

"Sec. 2. — The members of the Society may consist of three 
classes, Resident, Corresponding, and Honorary. 

"Sec. 3. — The annual fees of members. Corresponding and 
Honorary members excepted, shall be five dollars, and the payment 
of fifty dollars shall constitute a life member." 



Medal of Honor Legion. 

Organized April 23d, 1890. 
"OBJECTS. 

* ' Ever mindful that the ' Medal of Honor' is an insignia of heroic 
meaning, its possessors are thereby reminded that it is their habitual 
and most constant and ceaseless duty to be at all times gallant, 
modest, self-sacrificing and patriotic, and of spotless integrity in both 
private and public life. Having in the darkest hours of their coun- 
try's history attested their fidelity, they now, in a golden era of 
patriotism and prosperity, bind themselves to love, with equal sincer- 
ity and earnestness, all portions of their country and to teach by 
conduct and example, obedience to a sacred and venerated Constitu- 
tion and the laws of the land, and a common devotion to the Union, 
and to the one flag which alone represents its greatness, power, and 
glory. 

"The principles and objects of the Legion, as thus defined, 
include the obligation and duty to cherish all patriotic memories, to 
cultivate in truth and charity fraternal fellowship and sympathies, 
and contribute our earnest efforts at all times, in cordial co-operation 
with all other organizations, in securing and advancing the best inter- 
ests of all comrades and worthy soldiers and sailors." 

" ELIGIBILITY. 

" The membership of this Legion shall consist of Companions of 
two classes. 



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^' First Class. — All officers and enlisted men of the Regular 
Army and Volunteer forces of the United States to whom Medals of 
Honor have been presented by the President in the name of Con- 
gress, as having most distinguished themselves by their gallantry in 
action and other soldier-like qualities during the war for the preser- 
vation and maintenance of the Union and the Constitution, 1861-65 ; 
all petty officers, seamen, landsmen, and marines of the United 
States Navy to whom the Secretary of the Navy has presented 
Medals of Honor, pursuant to act or resolution of Congress, as hav- 
ing most distinguished themselves by their gallantry in action or 
extraordinary heroism in the line of their profession and other sea- 
man-like qualities during said war ; all officers and enlisted men of 
the Regular or Volunteer forces of the United States, and officers, 
petty officers, seamen, landsmen, and marines of the Navy of the 
United States who have received or may hereafter receive medals, 
pursuant to any act or resolution of Congress as having most dis- 
tinguished themselves by gallantry in battle or heroism in the line 
of their profession during any other war in which the United States 
has been or may be hereafter engaged, or any minor military or 
naval operations or engagements, including active warfare against the 
Indians. 

' ' The Executive Committee hereinafter provided for shall deter- 
mine in each case whether the holder of any such medal has received 
it according to the true intent and meaning of the act or resolution 
of Congress under which it was awarded. 

''Second Class. — The Second Class shall be composed of the 
sons, or, on failure of sons, of the Daughters of Companions of the 
First Class, — that is to say, the eldest or other son nominated by 
such member, or, on failure of sons, the eldest or other daughters so 
nominated shall be eligible to membership in the Second Class, and 
upon arriving at the age of twenty-one years he or she shall be enti- 
tled to participate in the proceedings of the Legion, and to vote on 
all questions as fully as if such Companion were of the First Class ; 
and upon the decease of a Companion of the First Class his afore- 
said successor shall become a Companion of the First Class, with all 
the rights of an original member of that class, if of full age or upon 
arriving at full age. 



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" The Legion shall be mamtamed always by hereditary succes- 
sion, as thus defined and provided for, and on failure of sons and 
daughters of Companions of the First Class, any person of kin to 
such Companion whom he may nominate during his lifetime, or who, 
on failure of such nomination, may thereafter be elected, may be 
admitted as a Companion of the Second Class." 



Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States. 

Instituted December 17th, 1894. 
"OBJECTS. 

" To honor and perpetuate the names of those who served their 
country as commissioned officers in wars with a foreign foe, in either 
branch of the service, in either the War of the Revolution, the War 
with Tripoli, the War of 1812, the Mexican War." 

"ELIGIBILITY. 

"Sec. I. — Companionship. Any male person, above the age 
of twenty-one years, a citizen of the United States, of good moral 
character and reputation, shall be eligible to Companionship in this 
Order, upon further qualifying as hereinafter provided. Members 
shall be known as ' Companions,' and shall be either ' Veteran Com- 
panions' or ' Hereditary Companions.' 

" Sec. 2. — Veterayi Companions. These shall be Commissioned 
Officers in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps of the United States, 
or honorably discharged therefrom, who did active field, garrison, or 
naval duty in any of the wars designated in Section 4 of this article, 
as a soldier, sailor, or marine in the service of one of the States or of 
the United States ; and also persons who did such active field, garri- 
son, or naval duty. In any of said wars, as Commissioned Officers 
therein, and who received their commissions by direct act of either 
Federal or State authority and who were honorably discharged from 
service. 

"Sec. 3. — Hereditary Companions. These shall be the direct 



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male lineal descendants, in the male line, of any Veteran Companion ; 
Provided, that, in case any Veteran Companion has no direct male 
lineal descendant, he shall have the privilege of nominating as his 
representative and successor, a brother, or a nephew of the same 
family name ; and also the direct male lineal descendants, in the male 
line, of a Commissioned Officer, as the Propositus, who performed 
active field, garrison, or naval duty, as a Commissioned Officer, in 
any of said wars, and who received his Commission by direct act of 
one of the thirteen original Colonies, or of Vermont, or of the Con- 
tinental Congress, or of one of the States, or of the United States. 

''Provided : That such Propositus remained always loyal to his 
cause, and was either killed or died in service, or was honorably dis- 
charged therefrom ; and 

''Provided: That when the claim to eligibility is based upon the 
service of an ancestor in the ' Militia,' it must be satisfactorily shown 
that such ancestor was actually called into the service of one of said 
thirteen original Colonies, or of Vermont, or of the Continental 
Congress, or of one of the States, or of the United States, and per- 
formed garrison or field duty ; and 

"Provided : That when the claim to eligibility is based upon the 
service of an ancestor as a 'Naval or Marine Officer,' it must be 
satisfactorily shown that such service was regularly performed in the 
Continental Navy, or in the Navy of one of the thirteen original Col- 
onies, or of Vermont, or of one of the States, or of the United 
States, or on an armed vessel, other than a merchant ship, which 
sailed under letters of marque and reprisal, and that such ancestor 
was duly enrolled in the ship's company as a Commissioned Officer. 

"Sec. 4. — Such service must be satisfactorily shown to have 
been performed in one of the following wars : 

*'The War of the Revolution, between the 19th day of April, 
1775, and the 19th day of April, 1783 ; 

** The War with Tripoli, between the loth day of June, 1801, 
and the 4th day of June, 1805 ; 

"The War of 1812, between the i8th day of June, 1812, and 
the 1 8th day of February, 1815 ; 

"The Mexican War, between the 9th day of May, 1846, and 
the 4th day of July, 1848," 



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NATIONAL Society of the Children of the 

AMERICAN revolution. 

Incorporated April nth, 1895. 

" OBJECTS. 

"We, the children and youth of America, in order to know- 
more about our country from its formation and thus to grow up into 
good citizens, with a love for, and an understanding of, the princi- 
ples and institutions of our ancestors, do unite under the guidance 
and government of the Daughters of the American Revolution, in 
the Society to be called the National Society of the Children of the 
American Revolution. 

'*We take as objects of this Society, to work for: First, the 
acquisition of knowledge of American history, so that we may 
understand and love our country better, and then any patriotic 
work that will help us to that end, keeping a constant endeavor to 
influence all other children and youth to the same purpose ; to help 
to save the places made sacred by the American men and women 
who forwarded American Independence ; to find out and to honor 
the lives of children and youth of the Colonies and of the American 
Revolution ; to promote the celebration of all patriotic anniversaries : 
to place a copy of the Declaration of Independence and other historic 
documents in every place appropriate for them ; to hold our Ameri- 
can flag sacred above every other flag on earth. In short, to follow 
the injunctions of Washington, who, in his youth, served his coun- 
try, till we can perform the duties of good citizens. 

"And to love, uphold, and extend the institutions of American 
liberty and patriotism, and the principles that made and saved our 
country." 

" ELIGIBILITY. 

All children and youth of America, of both sexes, from birth 
to the age of eighteen years for the girls and twenty-one years for 
the boys, may join this Society, provided they descend in direct 
line from patriotic ancestors who helped forward the War of the 
American Revolution. 



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" One of the reasons for starting this work is that it will tend to 
popularize the work of the public school toward patriotism and good 
government. 

* ' Those children who are not eligible for membership are to be 
gathered by the Local Societies into all its public meetings, into its 
plans, and its work, and its pleasures ; so that the movement may be 
said to be one of the broadest and most beneficent that has touched 
child life." 



NATIONAL Society of New England Women. 

Instituted January 24th, 1895. Incorporated March 4th, 1895. 
" OBJECTS. 

' To promote social and intellectual intercourse among its mem- 
bers and to offer advice and assistance to women of New England 
birth and ancestry, residing in portions of the United States other 
than New England. 

'* It is not the intention to make this a benevolent society. It is 
only intended to render a service in any way to any New England 
women who may need it. The intention of the Society is to carry 
out New England principles as far as possible, of advancing the 
cause of intellectual progress, of searching up new ideas and intro- 
ducing anything of a social nature which would seem to add to the 
happiness of its members." 

"ELIGIBILITY. 

'^Active. — An active member must have been born in New Eng- 
land, or one parent and a husband may have been born in New 
England. 

''Associate. — An associate member must have one parent born 
in New England, a husband born in New England, two grandparents 
born in New England, or one grandparent who represents a line of 
New England ancestry, and who was born in New England. 

" Daughters of members may become associate members." 



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NAVAL Order of the United States. 

Organized November loth, 1890. 
" OBJECTS. 

" Whereas, Many of the principal battles and famous victories of 
the several wars in which the United States has participated were 
fought and achieved by the Naval forces ; 

' ' Whereas, It is well and fitting that the illustrious deeds of the 
great Naval commanders, their companion officers in arms, and their 
subordinates in the wars of the United States should be forever hon- 
ored and respected ;■ — 

''Therefore, Entertaining the most exalted admiration of the 
undying achievements of the Navy, we, the survivors and descend 
ants of participants of those memorable conflicts, have joined our- 
selves together and have instituted the * Naval Order of the United 
States,' that we may transmit to our latest posterity their glorious 
names and memories ; and to encourage research and publication of 
data pertaining to Naval art and science, and to establish libraries in 
which to preserve all documents, rolls, books, portraits, and relics 
relating to the Navy and its heroes at all times." 

" ELIGIBILITY. 

" The Companions of the Order shall be of Three Classes : 
^' First Class. — Commissioned officers, Midshipmen and Naval 
Cadets, in actual service in the United States Navy, Marine Corps, 
Revenue or Privateer services during the wars, or in face of the 
enemy in any engagement, in which the Navy of the United States 
has participated and who resigned or were discharged with honor, or 
who are still in the service, provided, however, that this clause shall 
not be so construed as to include officers who at any time have borne 
arms against the Government of the United States. 

"The eldest lineal male representatives, or in default thereof, 
then one such collateral representative as may be deemed worthy, of 
deceased commissioned Officers, Midshipmen, and Naval Cadets in 
actual service in the Navy, Marine Corps, Revenue or Privateer ser- 
vices under the authority of any of the thirteen original Colonies or 



States, or of the Continental Congress during the War of the Revo- 
lution, or of the United States during the War with France, the War 
with Tripoli, the War of 1812, the War with Mexico, the Civil War, 
or in face of the enemy in any engagement in which the Navy of the 
United States has participated, and who resigned or were discharged 
with honor, or who were killed in the service. 

' * The admission and succession to membership in the First Class 
shall descend to the heir male, unless, for satisfactory reasons, another 
be chosen, in which case the membership shall extend to the life only 
of the Companion so elected, and at his decease the right to repre- 
sentation shall revert to the then existing heir male, 

^''Second Class. — Lineal male descendants of commissioned Offi- 
cers, Midshipmen and Naval Cadets, who performed service in the 
Navy, Marine Corps, Revenue or Privateer services, as aforesaid. 

''Third Class. — Enlisted men who have received the United 
States Naval Medal of Honor for bravery in face of the enemy may 
be enrolled, exempt from fees and dues, by the Commanderies of the 
States in which they reside." 



Netherlands Society of Philadelphia. 

"OBJECTS. 

" To collect literature relating to the Netherlands, to disseminate 
a knowledge of Netherlands history and influence upon civilization, 
and to promote social intercourse among its members." 

"ELIGIBILITY. 

" To entitle an applicant to membership, he must produce satis- 
factory evidence to show lineal descent from Netherlanders, or from 
ancestors who lived continuously in the Netherlands for at least two 
generations, and that the ancestor through whom the right to mem- 
bership is claimed emigrated to one of the American Colonies and 
resided therein prior to 1776. The applicant for membership must 
be twenty-one years of age, of good repute, and be proposed in 
writing by a member of the Society." 



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Ohio Society of New York. 

Organized January 13th, 1886. 

"OBJECTS. 

"To cultivate social intercourse among its members and to pro- 
mote their best interests." 

"ELIGIBILITY. 

"Any person is eligible to membership who is over eighteen 
years of age, and is a native, or the son of a native, of the State of 
Ohio, or has been a resident of Ohio for a period of seven years." 



REGULAR ARMY AND NAVY UNION OF THE UNITED STATES 

OF America. 

Incorporated March 31st, 1888. 
"OBJECTS. 

" Whereas, There are thousands of honorably discharged Regu- 
lar soldiers, sailors, and marines, who have spent the best days of 
their lives in the service of their country, who are to-day total 
strangers to one another ; and 

" Whereas, The Army, Navy, and Marine Corps of the United 
States of America are the principal guardians and strongest support- 
ers of the government in the protection of its citizens, their honor 
and integrity, their lives and liberties, as well as in the enforcement 
of the laws against the encroachment of foreign powers on the 
frontier, and in subduing those harassing and barbarous enemies of 
civilization, — the wild and treacherous Indians, who have been a 
source of bloody strife for many years ; and considering it our duty 
for the purpose of fraternal recognition and the enhancement of 
social relations between its members, as well as for mutual protection 
and benefit, to reunite those separated by reason of discharge ; to 
preserve and strengthen that fraternal feeling which binds together 
the regular soldiers, sailors, and marines of the United States who 



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have rendered faithful service to the Government ; to do all in our 
power to promote and elevate the social and material standing of the 
enlisted man, and the man before the mast, and to encourage and 
abet legislation for his benefit ; to strenuously insist upon the enforce- 
ment of Federal and State Civil Service laws, when mandatory pre- 
ference in the way of employment is to be given to honorably dis- 
charged veterans ; to care for the sick and distressed, to bury the 
dead, and to provide for the dependents of departed comrades and 
shipmates. Therefore be it 

' ' Resolved, That we, of the Regular service, who are honorably 
discharged from the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps of the United 
States, do hereby organize * The Regular Army and Navy Union of 
the United States of America,' for the purposes and objects above 
mentioned. ' ' 

•' ELIGIBILITY. 

An applicant for membership must be an enlisted man or ap- 
prentice of the Regular Army, Navy or Marine Corps, having at 
the time of application for membership served not less than one 
year of his current enlistment ; or any honorably discharged or 
retired member of the Regular Army, Navy, or Marine Corps of 
the United States of America, of good moral character, industrious 
habits, and possessed of some known reputable means of support 
and livelihood, and officers who have served five years or more in 
either branch of the service." 



Society of the Army of the Cumberland. 

Organized February 6th, 1868, 
"OBJECTS. 

' ' To perpetuate the memory of the fortunes and achievements 
of the Army of the Cumberland ; to preserve that unanimity of loyal 
sentiment and that kind and cordial feeling which has been an emi- 
nent characteristic of this army, and the main element of the power 
and success of its efforts in behalf of the cause of the Union. The 



history and glory of the officers and soldiers belonging to this army, 
who have fallen either on the field of battle or otherwise in the line 
of their duty, shall be a permanent trust to this Society, and every 
effort shall be made to collect and preserve the proper memorials of 
their services, to inscribe their names upon the roll of honor, and to 
transmit their fame to posterity. It shall also be the object and 
bounden duty of this Society to relieve, as far as possible, the fami- 
lies of such deceased officers and soldiers, when in indigent circum- 
stances, either by the voluntary contribution of the members, or in 
such other manner as they may determine, when the cases are 
brought to their attention. This provision shall also hereafter apply 
to the suffering families of those members of the Society who may in 
the future be called hence, and the welfare of the soldier's widow 
and orphan shall forever be a holy trust in the hands of his surviving 
comrades. ' ' 

"ELIGIBILITY. 

* ' Composed of officers and soldiers who served with honor in 
the Army of the Cumberland." 



Society of the army of the Potomac. 

Organized July 5th, 1869. 

" OBJECTS. 

* ' To cherish the memories and associations of the Army of the 
Potomac ; to strengthen the ties of fraternal fellowship and sympa- 
thy formed from companionship in that Army, to perpetuate the 
name and fame of those who have fallen either on the field of battle 
or in the line of duty with that Army ; to collect and preserve the 
record of its great achievements, its numerous and well-contested 
battles, its campaigns, marches, and skirmishes." 

" ELIGIBILITY. 

* ' Its membership is composed of officers and men who served 
with honor in the Army of the Potomac, and were honorably dis- 
charged therefrom, or remained in service in the regular Army ; 



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and also includes officers and men serving on vessels which, during 
the war, were in active and immediate co-operation with the Army of 
the Potomac, and who were honorably discharged therefrom or 
remained in the regular service. ' ' 



SOCIETY OF THE ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE. 

Organized April 14th, 1865. 

" OBJECTS. 

"To keep alive and preserve that kindly and cordial feeling 
which has been one of the characteristics of this Army during its 
career in the service, and which has given it such harmony of action, 
and contributed in no small degree to its glorious achievements in 
our country's cause. 

' ' The fame and glory of all the officers belonging to this Army 
who have fallen either on the field of battle or in their line of duty 
shall be a sacred trust to this Society, which shall cause proper 
memorials of their services to be collected and preserved, and thus 
transmit their names with honor to posterity." 

"ELIGIBILITY. 
' ' Officers who served with honor in said Army. ' ' 



SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI. 
"OBJECTS. 

This society was instituted on the 13th of May, 1783, by the 
officers of the Revolutionary army under the immediate command of 
General Washington, at the head-quarters of Baron Steuben on the 
Hudson River. 

" It having pleased the Supreme Governor of the Universe, in 
the Disposition of Human Affairs, to cause the Separation of the 
Colonies of North America from the Domination of Great Britain, 
and after a bloody Conflict of Eight Years to establish them free and 
independent sovereign States, connected by Alliances founded on 



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reciprocal Advantage with some of the Great Princes and Powers of 
the Earth. 

* ' To perpetuate, therefore, as well the Remembrance of this 
Vast Event as the mutual Friendships which have been formed under 
the Pressure of common danger, and in many Instances cemented by 
the Blood of the Parties, the Officers of the American Army do 
hereby in the most Solemn Manner associate, constitute, and com- 
bine themselves into one Society of Friends, to endure as long as 
they shall endure or any of their Eldest Male Posterity, and in fail- 
ure thereof the collateral Branches, who may be judged worthy of 
becoming its Supporters and Members. 

' ' The Officers of the American Army, having generally been 
taken from the Citizens of America, possess high Veneration for the 
Character of that illustrious Roman, Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus, 
and being resolved to follow his Example by returning to their Citi- 
zenship, they think they may with Propriety denominate themselves 
The Society of the Cincinnati. 

' ' The following Principles shall be immutable, and form the 
Basis of The Society of the Cincinnati : 

**An Incessant Attention to preserve inviolate those exalted 
Rights and Liberties of Human Nature for which they have fought 
and bled, and without which the high Rank of a Rational Being is a 
Curse Instead of a Blessing. 

' * An unalterable Determination to promote and cherish between 
the respective States that Union and national Honour so essential to 
their happiness, and the future Dignity of the American Empire. 

"To render permanent the cordial Affection subsisting among 
the officers ; this Spirit will dictate Brotherly Kindness in all things, 
and particularly extend to the most substantial Acts of Beneficence 
according to the Ability of the Society, towards those Officers and 
their Families who unfortunately may be under the Necessity of 
receiving it." 

" ELIGIBILITY. 

MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY. 

* ' Every person who may be desirous of becoming a member of 
the Society, and who shall come within the terms of the original 



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general institution, shall make his application to the Standing Com- 
mittee in writing ; who shall advise thereon, and report their opinion 
to the Society ; but no one shall be permitted to be a candidate under 
the age of twenty-one years. 

" Each person who shall be admitted a member in right of suc- 
cession to a deceased member, or who shall become a member by 
virtue of any rule now existing or which may hereafter be estab- 
lished, shall make and subscribe the following declaration, in the 
presence of the Society : 

" I having been admitted a member of the Society of the Cincin- 
nati within the State of Massachusetts, as the true successor of , late a 

member of this Society, and my deceased (father or brother, as the case may 
be) do solemnly promise and engage that I will duly conform to all the regu- 
lations established from time to time for the government of said Society, as 
far as they shall have for their basis the principles of the original institution. 

"In testimony whereof, I hereto subscribe my name, and pledge my 
sacred honor. 

" Any person making application to become a member of the 
Society, in conformity with the Rule recommended at the Triennial 
Meeting of the General Society of the Cincinnati, held in Baltimore, 
in May, 1854, ^^^ adopted by this Society at their annual meeting in 
July following, may be admitted, upon subscribing the usual declara- 
tion and upon condition of the payment of the sum of seven hundred 
(i-700.00) dollars to the Treasurer of the Society, as a contribution to 
the permanent fund, and shall thereby be entitled to all the rights and 
privileges of an original member. 

"The succession and admission to membership of this Society 
shall descend to the heir male, unless, for satisfactory reasons, 
another be chosen ; in which case the membership shall extend to 
the life only of the person so elected, and, at his decease, the then 
existing heir male of the original member shall be the person first to 
be considered in a new election. 

' ' A failure on the part of any eligible person to apply for admis- 
sion within a reasonable time after being informed of the existence of 
his claim, may be interpreted as a waiver thereof 

" Since a waiver can, in any case, be regarded only as the renun- 
ciation of a claim, not as the transfer of a right, none can be recog- 
nized which would impair the subsequent eligibility of a minor. 



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" Priority of claim through descendants through a female line 
shall be construed according to the same rules which govern priority 
in the male line, namely, those oi primo-geniture according to the 
common law, so far as applicable. 

''All the Officers of the American Army, as well those who 
have resigned with Honor after Three Years' Service in the Capacity 
of Officers, or who have been deranged by the Resolutions of Con- 
gress upon the several Reforms of the Army, or those who shall 
have continued to the End of the War, have the Right to become 
Parties to this Institution ; provided that they subscribe one month's 
Pay, and sign their Names to the general Rules in their respective 
State Societies ; those who are present with the army immediately ; 
and others within Six months after the Army shall be disbanded, 
extraordinary Cases excepted ; The Rank, time of Service, Resolu- 
tion of Congress by which any may have been deranged, and place 
of Residence must be added to each Name ; and as a Testimony of 
affection to the Memory and the Offspring of such Officers as have 
died in the Service, their eldest Male branches shall have the same 
Right of becoming members as the Children of the actual members 
of the Society." 

Rhode island Society. 

"All applications for admission to membership in the Society 
shall be addressed by the applicant in writing to and examined by the 
'Standing Committee,' the applicant stating clearly and fully his 
claim. The committee shall examine the same, and, after demand- 
ing such proof as it thinks proper, shall advise thereon and report its 
opinion in writing to the Society ; none, however, but males of the 
age of twenty-one and upwards shall be admitted to membership. 

" No person shall be admitted a member of the Society (what- 
ever may be his relationship to an original or other member of the 
Cincinnati) unless he be of good moral character and reputation, 
and be, in the language of the ' General Institution,' by the Society 
'judged worthy of becoming its supporter and member.' 

" Original members of the Cincinnati under the ' General Insti- 
tution,' capable of transmitting hereditary membership, are defined 
to be those duly qualified officers of the American and French 



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Armies, under His Excellency, General George Washington as 
Commander-in-Chief, and of the American and French Navies who 
subscribed the * General Institution' under the provisions therein 
contained, either while with these armies or navies in the year 1783, 
or within six months after the final disbandment of the American 
Army on the twentieth day of June, in the year seventeen hundred 
and eighty-four, extraordinary cases excepted, and including as 
eligible for service during the American War of Independence, 
between the nineteenth day of April, in the year seventeen hundred 
and seventy-five, and the third day of December, in the year seven- 
teen hundred and eighty three. 

" First — The Commissioned Officers of the regular American Arm.y who 
resigned with honor after three years' service in the capacity of Commissioned 
Officers. 

" Where, however, all or a portion of such three years' service was per- 
formed as a Commissioned Officer in the Rhode Island ' Brigade of State 
Troops, ' specially and exceptionally raised for considerable periods of ser- 
vice and taken on the Continental Establishment, such portion of service is 
construed as intended to be embraced in the designated period. 

'^Second — The Commissioned Officers of the regular Continental Army 
who were deranged by the resolutions of Congress upon the several reforms 
of the army. 

" Z'/^zV^— The Commissioned Officers of the regular Continental Army 
who continued in service to the end of the war. 

^'Fourth — The eldest male posterity, or in the failure thereof, the col- 
lateral descendants respectively, of such Commissioned Officers of the Amer- 
ican A rmy or Navy as died in the service. 

"The admission of 'hereditary' members shall be confined to 
the eldest male posterity of original members of this Society, and in 
failure thereof the collateral branches who may be judged worthy of 
becoming its supporters and members ; and in like manner to the 
male descendants (including collateral branches) of such Commis- 
sioned Oiiicers of the regular Continental Army or Navy as may 
have been entitled, under the definition in the preceding Rule, to 
admission, but who failed to avail themselves thereof within the time 
prescribed by the * General Institution ; ' and in like manner to the 
male collateral descendant of any regular Continental Officer who 
died in the service without leaving direct issue : Provided, however, 
that when there shall be no descendants in the direct male line, and 



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there shall be male descendants of the officer through a female line, 
the Society shall determine which of such male descendants deriving 
inheritance through intervening female descendants, shall be admitted 
to hereditary membership as the representative of his propositus : 
And, Provided, further, that when admission is claimed in the first 
instance in right of the services of a Continental Officer who never 
became a member, such officer must have been credited to the Con- 
tinental contingent of this State or of one whose Society is extinct, 
or the applicant himself must be domiciled in Rhode Island. 

* ' Persons entitled to hereditary membership in State Societies of 
the Cincinnati which may have been dissolved, may be admitted into 
this Society at any ' annual' meeting upon such terms as to contribu- 
tion to the Society's ' permanent fund,' and otherwise as it may from 
time to time, by resolution, think proper to prescribe. Such admis- 
sion, however, shall only be by ballot, and one negative vote shall 
exclude. 

"In like manner, any one domiciled in Rhode Island who may 
be hereditarily entitled to membership in another State Society, may 
be admitted into this Society on said terms, with consent of said 
State Society, provided his place in such Society has not been filled 
or he excluded for cause. 

" In case of the declination or waiver of a person, upon whom 
devolves the succession, to accept hereditary membership or his 
omission, on reasonable notice, to avail himself of it, or in case of 
resolution of the Society to exclude him for unworthiness, it may de- 
termine which, if any, of the other descendants of the original mem- 
ber in the elder male line according to priority of claim shall suc- 
ceed to the representation : Provided, however, if the next heir male 
of the person regularly entitled to succession be a minor, the eligi- 
bility to membership being vested in him, the use thereof shall re- 
main in abeyance until such disal-ility cease, preference always being 
given to his claim. The Society may, however, exclude him for any 
of the foregoing reasons or under unusual circumstances. 

" Only one person at a time shall be competent to succeed to 
hereditary membership on the decease of an actual member, or in 
right of a Commissioned Officer of the regular Continental Army or 
Navy who may have been entitled to original membership, and no 



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person (other than actual hereditary members in existing State Soci- 
eties of the Cincinnati) shall be admitted to membership, either 
hereditary or honorary, except at an ' annual' meeting, and then 
only by ballot. One negative vote shall be sufficient to exclude any 
such candidate. 

"Any actual hereditary member in any other State Society of 
the Cincinnati who shall remove into and become domiciled in the 
State of Rhode Island may, on his application for transfer, be 
received into this Society as an actual member by a majority vote, at 
either a special or ' annual' meeting, provided the transfer is accept- 
able to his own State Society, and provided he shall pay into the 
'permanent fund' of this Society the same sum as may be, at the 
time, required from applicants admitted to hereditary membership 
from extinct State Societies. 

"Members in other State Societies shall always be privileged to 
altend and shall be welcomed at the meetings of this Society and 
noted as present, and be entided to participate in all its deliberations 
and assemblages, but not to vote or to enjoy relief from its perma- 
nent fund. 

" By resolution of this Society, the contribution to the perma- 
nent fund required from the proper descendant of a qualified Revolu- 
tionary officer who was not an original member, is fixed at five hun- 
dred dollars." 

New York Society. 

" Every person desirous of becoming a member of the Society, 
shall make application, in writing, to the Standing Committee, set- 
ting forth distinctly and clearly his claim to be admitted. The com.- 
mittee shall advise thereon, and may demand any proof which they 
may deem requisite in support of such claim, and any testimonial 
with respect to the character and standing of the applicant, and they 
shall report, in writing, the facts of the case together with their opin- 
ion to the Society. No person shall be admitted as a mem.ber unless 
he shall be twenty-one years of age, nor unless his claim and appli- 
cation for admission shall have been before the Standing Committee 
prior to the day of the meeting on which he may be voted for as a 
member. 



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' * No person shall be admitted a member of the Society (what- 
ever may be his relation to an original or other member of the Soci- 
ety) unless he be of good moral character and reputation, and be (in 
the language of the original Institution) 'judged worthy of becoming 
its supporter and member.' 

"Eligibility to membership in succession, devolving upon a 
minor, shall be deemed vested in such minor, but the use thereof 
shall remain in abeyance until the disability cease or be removed. 

"Lineal succession to membership shall be, according to the 
rules of inheritance at the common law ' tke eldest male posterity (of 
the Original Member), and in failure thereof the collateral branches 
who may be judged worthy of becoming its supporters and members.' 
In cases of representation or succession through females, the eldest 
branch shall be preferred to the younger. The Officer of the Army 
or Navy of the Revolution, who was an Original Member, shall be 
deemed and taken as the ^propositus' from whom succession shall be 
derived. 

'* The eldest male descendant, of full age, of any Original Mem- 
ber of any of the State Societies which have been dissolved, and also 
the eldest male descendant if residing in the State of New York, of 
any Original Member of any State Society, may be admitted into 
this Society (if judged worthy) upon the payment into the Treasury 
of a sum equal to one month's pay of the Original Member from 
whom the applicant claims descent, in the Continental Service accord- 
ing to the rank of such Original Member, at the time he signed the 
roll of the Society of which he was a member, together with legal 
interest thereon computed from the Society's organization to the 
time of such admission, provided that such sum shall in no case be 
less than five hundred dollars, unless by special order of this Society. 

"No person shall be elected a member of this Society whose 
ancestor adhered to, or took protection from the Enemy during the 
war of the Revolution. 

" No person shall be elected a member of the Society, except at 
an Annual Meeting, and no person shall be elected an Honorary 
Member without having been proposed at the immediately preceding 
Annual Meeting, and an entry of the fact being made upon the min- 
utes, and recommended by the Standing Committee." 



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New Jersey Society. 

"Where there are descendants of an Original Member in the 
male line, the right of membership belongs to the heir of the eldest 
line ; but where the male line is extinct, the Society may determine 
which of the female line shall have the representation ; and where 
there are no lineal descendants of an Original Member, a descendant 
of a brother or sister of the original member may succeed to the 
representation. Upon the death of a member, if the person upon 
whom devolves the succession, being of full age, shall fail to apply 
for his membership within two years, he shall be notified by the Sec- 
retary at his last known place of residence (a copy of this rule 
accompanying such notification), and if within a year thereafter he 
declines or omits to make said application, the right of succession 
may, at the option of the Society, be oifered to his next heir male ; 
and if he also declines or omits to avail himself of the offer within a 
year, the Society may determine which, if any, of the other descend- 
ants of the Original Member shall succeed to the representation : 
Provided, however, If the next heir male of the person regularly 
entitled to succession be a minor, the eligibility to membership 
being vested in him, this rule shall remain in abeyance until such 
disability cease. 

" Hereafter all officers of the army or navy of the Revolution, 
whose records are unsullied, shall be entitled to representation in 
this State Society ; but such representation shall be upon the con- 
ditions that each applicant furnish satisfactory evidence of his good 
character and moral worth and shall pay into the treasury of the 
Society the sum of five hundred dollars. 

' ' Any person claiming membership shall make written applica- 
tion to the Standing Committee at or before a regular annual meet- 
ing, stating clearly his claim. The Committee shall examine the 
same, and after demanding such proof as they think proper in its 
support, shall report to the Society their opinion in writing. The 
Society always reserving to itself the right to reject and pass over 
any application where it is deemed best for its interests to do so, 
whether for unworthiness on the part of the applicant or other cause. 

"No elections for members shall be held except at regular 
annual meetings. Honorary members, or those applying under the 



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provisions of the second rule above, shall be proposed at an annual 
meeting previous to that at which they are to be balloted for. All 
elections shall be by ballot, and five negative votes shall be consid- 
ered as a rejection of any candidate. 

* ' None but males of full age shall be admitted to membership, 
but eligibility to membership in succession devolving upon a minor, 
shall be deemed vested in such minor, and the use thereof shall 
remain in abeyance until the disability cease or be removed as pro- 
vided for in the first rule." 

PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY. 

' ' No person shall be admitted as a member unless he shall be 
twenty-one years of age. 

' ' No person shall be admitted a member of the Society (what- 
ever may be his relation to an original or other member of the 
Society), unless he be of good moral character and reputation, and 
be (in the language of the original Institution) by the Society 
'judged worthy of becoming its supporter and member.' 

' ' No application for membership in any right, whether as a suc- 
cessor upon the death of a present member, or upon a new applica- 
tion, shall be brought before or considered by the Standing Com- 
mittee, unless accompanied by the sworn statement of the person 
seeking membership of the truth of such api^lication and of all the 
facts therein contained. 

*' This Society will not receive into membership by transfer any 
member of any State Society unless his application is accompanied 
by an affidavit that he is a member of right within the stipulations of 
the Original Institution of the Order. 

"He must submit to the Standing Committee the rules under 
which members are admitted unto the State Society of which he is a 
member, stating under which rule he has been admitted, and a cer- 
tificate from the Secretary of said State Society that he is a member 
in good standing. 

* * Only persons representing (as set forth in the Institution) 
Original Members of the Society, or Officers of the Continental Line 
who died in the Service, are eligible. 

" Each Original Member can have but one representative. 



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" Each Original Member should be represented ; therefore where 
the right to represent several Original Members would otherwise 
merge in one person, the Society prefers to keep these rights sep- 
arate, and to admit a distinct representative in each right, where it 
can be done in accordance with the Institution. 

"Where an Original Member failed to contribute to the Treas- 
ury of the Society as directed by the Institution, his representative, 
when admitted to membership, must make good the amount due by 
the Original Member, together with interest at the rate of six per 
centum per annum from the time the original contribution was due 
to the date of the representative's admission to the Society, or pay 
a sum of money to be named by the Society. 

' ' Members of other State Societies of the Cincinnati seeking to 
associate themselves, by transfer, with the State Society of Pennsyl- 
vania, are required to bring themselves within the interpretation of 
the Institution as set forth in these principles. 

When a resident of Pennsylvania desires to be admitted to the 
State Society of Pennsylvania to represenUan,'^^i^i)^^«^e^er of 
another State Society, he must first be adrtliSed^^^^iS^ate 
Society and then transferred. " -^-^*«>^.. — \ 

Maryland Society. J 

'Every application for membershlKA/^^bp^m^^rftil^^ 
signed by the applicant, and must be presenlM^^^member'of this 
State Society, who shall sign his name thereto as the proposer of the 
applicant. 

"The application shall state applicant's profession or calling, 
his place of residence, his descent from the revolutionary officer 
whom he claims to represent, and the name and rank of that officer. 

"No person shall be eligible for membership who is under 
twenty-one years of age, or who cannot give to the Society satisfac- 
tory proof that he is a gendeman of honor and good repute in all 
respects, worthy of becoming one of its supporters and members. 

"The persons eligible for membership in this Society are : All 
of the male posterity of a revolutionary officer who was, or was enti- 
tled to be, an Original Member of the Maryland State Society of the 
Cincinnati, or was a member in good standing of any State Society 



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now extinct ; and in failure of such male posterity any of the collat- 
eral branches ; provided that there shall never be elected more than 
one member of the Society at one time representing the same revo- 
lutionary officer ; provided further that the status of members elected 
previous to the passage of this amended rule, and of the propositus 
whom they represent, be in nowise affected thereby. 

"Subject always to the provisions of Article 3, the following 
preferences shall be observed in considering applications : 

*' I. Direct descendants shall be preferred to collaterals. 

'* 2. Among direct descendants the male line is to be preferred 
to the female line. 

' ' 3. Among collaterals the nearest in blood to the propositus. 

* ' 4. Among applicants equally entitled in other respects the 
older shall be preferred to the younger. 

" The Society reserves to itself the right to reject any applica- 
tion, whether from a direct descendant or collateral, whenever it may 
deem it for its interest to do so. 

' ' Every application shall be presented at a meeting and referred 
to the Committee on Admissions to be reported and voted upon at a 
subsequent meeting, and no applicant shall be elected at a meeting 
when his application is first presented. 

" A member elected as the representative, whether direct or col- 
lateral, of an Original Member, who qualified as such by contributing 
one month's pay to the Maryland State Society of the Cincinnati, 
shall pay an admission fee of thirty dollars, and a member elected as 
the representative of an officer who was not an Original Member, or 
did not so qualify, shall pay an admission fee of one hundred dollars. 
Every member shall purchase from the Secretary a Diploma or Cer- 
tificate of Membership, and pay for the same the sum of seven 
dollars. 

"Any member who has not qualified by payment of admission 
fee and for diploma within one year after notice of his election, shall 
be deemed to have forfeited his election. 

"Any member of any existing State Society of the Cincinnati 
may be transferred to this Society by making an application in writ- 
ing, accompanied by a certificate from the Secretary of his own 
State Society that he is a member thereof in good standing." 



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South Carolina Society. 



''All lineal male descendants, through the males of such persons 
as now are, have been, or may hereafter become members of this 
Society, and the eldest lineal male descendant through the eldest 
male line of officers of the Continental Army, shall be eligible as 
members of this Society. No person, however, shall be admitted 
to membership unless he be a resident of this State, except he 
reside in the State where there is no State Society, and claim 
through an officer of the South Carolina line, or through an 
officer of the line of a State in which no State Society exists. 
Provided that hereafter no person shall be admitted a member 
m right of an officer whose ancestor was never a member in the 
Cincinnati, except on the payment of fifty dollars if his claim be 
through an officer of the South Carolina line ; and of one hundred 
dollars if his claim be based upon his representation of an officer 
of any other line. And provided further that whenever there shall 
be no lineal descendants through the males, the eldest lineal de- 
scendant through the eldest daughter having descendants shall be 
entided in preference over collateral branches, and whenever there 
shall be no lineal descendants, the eldest lineal descendant through 
the eldest collateral male branch, shall be entided. 

' ' No person shall be elected a member of the Society except by 
ballot at a regular meeting, by a majority of at least three-fourths of 
the members present ; no pei-son shall be balloted for who has not 
been proposed at a previous regular general meeting of the Society, 
and the most sacred regard to secrecy shall be observed by the mem- 
bers on the occasion, that if the candidate should prove unsuccessful, 
the knowledge of his misfortune shall never transpire." 



SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS 

" OBJECTS. 

" JVkereas, It is desirable that there should be adequate celebra- 
tions commemorative of the events of Colonial history, happening 



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from the settlement of Jamestown, Va., May 13, 1607, to the battle 
of Lexington, April 19, 1775 ; 

' ' Therefore, The Society of Colonial Wars has been instituted 
to perpetuate the memory of those events, and of the men who, in 
military, naval, and civil positions of high trust and responsibility, 
by their acts or counsel, assisted in the establishment, defence, and 
preservation of the American Colonies, and were in truth the found- 
ers of this Nation. With this end in view, it seeks to collect and 
preserve manuscripts, rolls, relics, and records ; to provide suitable 
commemorations or memorials relating to the American Colonial 
period, and to inspire in its members the fraternal and patriotic spirit 
of their forefathers, and in the community respect and reverence for 
those whose public services made our freedom and unity possible." 

" ELIGIBILITY. 

' ' Any male person above the age of twenty-one years, of good 
moral character and reputation, shall be eligible to membership in 
the Society of Colonial Wars, who is lineally descended, in the male 
or female line, from an ancestor : 

" (i) Who served as a military or naval officer, or as a soldier, 
sailor, or marine, or as a privateersman, under authority of the Colo- 
nies which afterward formed the United States, or in the forces of 
Great Britain which participated with those of the said Colonies in 
any w^ars in which the said Colonies were engaged, or in which they 
enrolled men, from the settlement of Jamestown, May 13, 1607, to 
the battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775 ; or, 

* * (2) Who held office in any of the Colonies between the dates 
above mentioned, either as 

" ia) Director-General, Vice-Director-General, or member of the 
Council or legislative body in the Colony of New Netherlands. 

"(3) Governor, Lieutenant- or Deputy-Governor, Lord Propri- 
etor, member of the King's or Governor's Council, or legislative 
body in the Colonies of New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Pennsyl- 
vania, and Delaware. 

' ' {c) Lord Proprietor, Governor, Deputy-Governor, or member 
of the Council or of the legislative body in Maryland and the Caro- 
linas. 



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" (^) Governor, Deputy-Governor, Governor's Assistant, or 
Commissioner to the United Colonies of New England, or member of 
the Council, body of Assistants, or legislative body in any of the 
New England Colonies. 

"One collateral representative of an ancestor, such as above 
specified, shall be eligible to membership, provided there be no exist- 
ing lineal descendant, and provided that such person be the oldest 
collateral representative in the male line of such ancestor, or has 
filed with the Secretary-General of the Society written renunciation 
from all other persons having nearer claims to representation. 

' ' No State Society shall adopt any rule of eligibility for memiber- 
ship which shall admit any person not eligible for membership in the 
General Society ; but any State Society may, except as to members 
transferred from another State Society, further restrict at its discre- 
tion the basis of eligibility for membership in its own Society." 



SOCIETY OF MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTS. 

Organized December 22d, 1894. 

" OBJECTS. 

''Whereas, Our ancestors, passengers on 'The Mayflower,' 
landed in December, 1620, on Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts, and 

'' WAereas, They came to settle in a new land and to found a 
new home and government, for the benefit of themselves and their 
posterity, and 

* ' Whereas, After struggles and hardships, which in the first 
year after their landing carried off one-half of their number and 
necessitated years of continued bravery and fortitude against innu- 
merable trials of the severest kind, and 

*' W/zereas, Their acts and example have been instrumental in 
the establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty throughout this 
land, 

' ' Therefore, This society is formed by lineal descendants of that 
band of Pilgrims, to preserve their memory, their records, their his- 
tory, and all facts relating to them, their ancestors, and their pos- 
terity." 



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" ELIGIBILITY. 

"Every lineal descendant, over eighteen years of age, of any 
passenger of the voyage of the * Mayflower, ' which terminated at 
Plymouth, Massachusetts, December, 1620, including all signers of 
'The Compact,' shall be eligible to membership. They must be 
proposed, seconded, and elected." 

Society of Sons of the Revolution. 

Instituted February zad, 1876. Reorganized December 4th, 18S3. 
" OBJECTS. 

' ' The Society has been instituted to perpetuate the memory ot 
the men who, in Military, Naval or Civil service, by their acts or 
counsel achieved American Independence ; to promote and assist in 
the proper celebration of the anniversaries of Washington's Birth- 
day, the Battles of Lexington and Bunker Hill, the Fourth of July, 
the Capitulations of Saratoga and Yorktown, the Formal Evacuation 
of New York by the British Army, on the 3d of December, 1783, as 
a relinquishment of territorial sovereignty, and other prominent 
events relating to or connected with the War of the Revolution ; to 
collect and secure for preservation the manuscript rolls, records and 
other documents and memorials relating to that War ; to inspire 
among the members and descendants a patriotic spirit of their fore- 
fathers ; to inculcate in the community in general sentiments of 
nationality, and respect for the principles for which the patriots of 
the Revolution contended ; to assist in the commemorative celebra- 
tion of other great historical events of national importance, and to 
promote social intercourse and the feeling of fellowship among its 
members. 

" The objects of the Society are social, educational and patriotic, 
and the Society is formed for the particular purpose of perpetuating 
the memory of the men, who in military, naval and civil service of 
the Colonies, and of the Continental Congress, by their acts or coun- 
sel, achieved the independence of the country, and to further the 
proper celebration of the anniversaries of the birthday of Washing- 
ton, and prominent events connected with the war of the Revolu- 
tion ; to collect and secure for preservation the manuscripts, records 



and other documents relating to that period ; to inspire the mem- 
bers of the Society with the patriotic spirit of their forefathers, and 
to promote the feeUng of fellowship among its members." 

"ELIGIBILITY. 

"Any male person above the age of twenty-one years shall be 
eligible to membership in this Society, who is descended from an 
ancestor as the proposihts, who, either as a military, naval or marine 
officer, soldier, sailor or marine, or official in the service of any one 
of the thirteen original Colonies or States, or of the National Gov- 
ernment representing or composed of those Colonies or States, 
assisted in establishing American Independence, during the War of 
the Revolution, between the 19th day of April, 1775, when hostili- 
ties commenced, and the 19th day of April, 1783, when they were 
ordered to cease. 

''Provided, That when the claim of eligibility is based on the 
service of an ancestor in the Minutemen or Militia it must be satis- 
factorily shown that such ancestor was actually called into the service 
of the State or United States, and performed, garrison, or field duty ; 
and — 

* ' Provided further, That when the claim of eligibility is based on 
the service of an ancestor as a sailor or marine, it must in like man- 
ner be shown that such service was other than shore duty, and regu- 
larly performed in the Continental navy, or the navy of one of the 
original thirteen States, or on an armed vessel, other than a merchant 
ship, which sailed under letters of marque and reprisal, and that such 
ancestor of the applicant was duly enrolled in the ship's company, 
either as an officer, seaman, or otherwise than as a passenger ; 
and — 

' 'Provided further, That when the claim of eligibility is based 
on the service of an ancestor as an official, such service must have 
been performed in the civil service of the United States, or of one 
of the thirteen original States, and must have been sufficiently 
important in character to have rendered the official specially liable 
to arrest and imprisonment, the same as a combatant, if captured by 
the enemy, as well as liable to conviction of treason against the 
Government of Great Britain. 



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^^ Provided further, That where there shall be no surviving issue 
in direct lineal succession from an officer, soldier, sailor or marine 
who died or was killed in actual service as aforesaid, or from an 
officer who received, by formal resolve, the approbation of the Con- 
tinental Congress for revolutionary services, or from a signer of the 
Declaration of Independence, the claim of eligibility shall descend 
and be limited to one representative at a time in the nearest collat- 
eral line of descent from such propositus, who may be otherwise 
qualified as herein required, and to be designated by the Society ; 
and no other descendants in collateral lines shall be admitted in right 
of any services whatever. 

* * In the construction of this article the volunteer Aides-de- 
Camp of General Officers in Continental service who were duly 
announced as such, and who actually served in the field during a 
campaign, shall be comprehended as having performed qualifying 
service. 

'' The Civil Officials and Military forces of the State of Vermont 
during the War of the Revolution shall also be comprehended in the 
same manner as if they had belonged to one of the thirteen original 
States. 

* ' No service of an ancestor shall be deemed as qualifying ser- 
vice for membership in the Society where such ancestor, after assist- 
ing in the cause of American Independence shall have subsequently 
either adhered to the enemy, or failed to maintain an honorable rec- 
ord throughout the War of the Revolution. 

* ' No person shall be admitted as a member of this Society 
unless he be eligible under one of the provisions of this article, and 
unless of good moral character, and adjudged worthy of becoming a 
member." 



SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES DAUGHTERS— 1776-1812. 

In the State of Louisiana. 

" OBJECTS. 

'' Whereas, In all time and in all ages, valor, patriotism, and 
self-sacrifice have been justly held as the triune virtues which con- 
stitute true heroism ; and 



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" Whereas, Next to the approval of God and our conscience, 
the approval of our fellowmen must ever remain the incentive to 
great and noble deeds ; therefore be it 

^'Resolved, That in recalling the deeds of those who in 1776 
sacrificed fortune and life itself in the defense of their liberties, 
and of those who, in 18 12, in the face of like hardships and dis- 
couragements, settled forever the question of our national Inde- 
pendence, the United States Daughters of 1776 and 181 2 honor 
themselves, and hold up to their children examples of disinterested 
patriotism, steadfastness in adversity, and unflinching courage in 
defense of right, which will, we trust, influence their lives in what- 
ever paths an all-wise Providence may lead them. 

' * It is, therefore, the aim and purpose of this Society to collect 
such papers, letters, and documents as shall help to write a true and 
impartial history of our country ; to honor the graves of those patriots 
who gave their lives to the good cause ; to promote friendly and social 
relations between the descendants of those who made that history 
possible, and for such other worthy objects as the Society, from time 
to time, may judge wise and proper." 

"ELIGIBILITY. 

**Any white woman shall be eligible to membership in the 
United States Daughters of 1776-18 12, who is lirieally descended 
from an ancestor who, either as a military, naval, or marine officer, 
soldier, sailor, or marine, or an oflicial, or in any effective way and 
with unfailing loyalty, assisted in establishing American Indepen- 
dence during the wars of 1776 and 181 2 ; provided she be of good 
moral character, and shall be judged worthy of becoming a member." 



SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES DAUGHTERS— 1812. 

In the State of New York. 

" OBJECTS. 

'* Whereas y It has become evident that among the descendants 
of those patriots who assisted in establishing American Independence, 
there are many who can furnish record of service done in the war of 
181 2, but not for the earlier date of 1776 ; whose patriotism and love 



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of country creates In them a desire to keep alive an interest in the 
events and people of those times, especially that final struggle that 
rounded up the period of our servitude. 

" Therefore, The Society of the 'United States Daughters, 
1812,' has been instituted to perpetuate the memory of those who 
in military, naval, or civil service, by their acts or counsel, aided to 
achieve American Independence ; to assist in the proper celebration 
of the anniversaries and prominent events relating to or connected 
with the War of the Revolution ; to collect and secure for preserva- 
tion the manuscript rolls, records, and other documents and memorials 
relating to that War ; to inspire among the members and their de- 
scendants the patriotic spirit of their forefathers ; to inculcate in the 
community in general sentiments of nationality and respect for the 
principles for which the patriots of the Revolution contended ; to 
assist in the commemorative celebration of other great historical 
events of National importance, and to promote social intercourse and 
the feeling of fellowship among its members." 

" ELIGIBILITY. 

" Any woman shall be eligible to membership in the United States 
Daughters, 181 2, who is lineally descended from an ancestor who, 
either as a military, naval, or marine officer, soldier, sailor, or marine, 
or an official, or in any effective manner and with unfailing loyalty 
assisted in establishing American Independence during the war of 
1812 : 

''Provided, she be of good moral character, and be judged 
worthy of becoming a member." 



SONS OF VETERANS, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 

Instituted April 24, 1879. Incorporated, 1881. 

" OBJECTS. 

* ' To keep green the memories of our fathers and their sacrifices 
for the maintenance of the Union. 

• ' To aid the members of the Grand Army of the Republic, and 
all honorably discharged Union soldiers, sailors, and marines, in the 



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caring for their helpless and disabled veterans ; to extend aid and 
protection to their widows and orphans ; to perpetuate the memory 
and history of their heroic dead, and the proper observance of 
Memorial Day and Union Defenders Day. 

" To aid and assist worthy and needy members of our Order. 

"To inculcate patriotism and love of country, not only among 
our membership, but among all the people of our land, and to spread 
and sustain the doctrine of equal rights, universal liberty, and justice 
to all." 

" ELIGIBILITY. 

"All male descendants not less than i8 years oi age, of deceased 
or honorably discharged soldiers, sailors, or marines, who served in 
the Union Army or Navy, during the Civil War of 1 861-1865, shall 
be eligible to membership, provided that no person shall be eligible 
who has ever been convicted of any infamous crime, or who has, or 
whose father has ever, borne arms against the Government of the 
United States of America." 



THE ARMY OF WEST VIRGINIA. 

Preliminary Organization, September 22d, 1870. Formally Organized, October 19th, 1871. 

"OBJECTS. 

"To cherish the m.emories and associations of the Army of 
West Virginia ; to strengthen the ties of fraternal fellowship and 
sympathy formed from companionship in the Army ; to perpetuate 
the name and fame of those who have fallen either on the field of 
battle or in the line of duty with that Army ; to collect and preserve 
the record of its great achievements, its numerous and well-contested 
battles, its campaigns, marches, and skirmishes." 

" ELIGIBILITY. 

"The Association may include the Governors of the State of 
West Virginia previous to the close of the war ; every officer and 
enlisted man who has at any time served with honor in that Army 
and been honorably discharged therefrom or remains in service in the 



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Regular Army ; also any officer and enlisted man living in what was 
the Department of West Virginia, but having served in other armies 
and having been honorably discharged therefrom. Honorary mem- 
bers may, from time to time, be elected from those who served with 
distinction in any of the other armies or in the Navy of the United 
States." 



The Aryan Order of St. George of the Holy Roman empire 
in the colonies of america. 

Instituted March nth, 1892. 
"OBJECTS. 

"11. The purpose of this Society is to promote social virtues, 
to reprobate fashionable vices and follies, to preserve genealogical 
records of the families of members and the accounts of their historic 
greatness as means to further the end by enlivening a feeling of fam- 
ily worth and honor with present memorials." 

" ELIGIBILITY. 

" V. That a membership proposed to be conferred must be ap- 
proved by the Supreme Council or its duly authorized representative, 
requirements being honorable character, illustrious and honorable 
family, colonial or noble, of the Aryan race. 

" X. The children of the members are to succeed them in mem- 
bership, according to the prerogative of members of a body corporate 
to choose their successors. 

" XI. Ladies are eligible to membership in the Order. 

"XII. All descendants, male or female, of the first ancestor 
entitled to membership in the Order who bear the family nam.e, 
are eligible as members, and constitute but one family. That mem- 
ber of a family who represents the eldest line male ranks as Cacique 
or Chief of the family in the Order. 

"XIII. All members receive a diploma from the Order, the 
Caciques, in addition, transmit to their heirs the titles and the deco- 
rations of the Order, — the imperial two-headed eagle, vert, on whose 
breast is the red cross of St. George for the Holy Empire, which is 
the insignia or coat-of-arms of the Order. 



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*'XIV. Families in the Order are distinguished by emblaz- 
oning their coat-of-arms on the two-headed eagle, while the Caciques 
bear, in addition, an ancient ducal coronet between the eagle's heads. 
The pedigrees of all members are to be lodged with their State 
Societies, having recorded ancestral titles and arms with historic 
evidence. 

' ' XV. That membership in the Order must be restricted to 
those descended from the following : 

" I. Those ennobled, knighted, or decorated by royalty for 
meritorious service. 

" 2. British officers, civil or military, of honorable discharge, 
settled in America from the earliest to latest date. (This includes the 
whole body of the American colonial magistracy and officers.) 

"3. Families of honorable mention entitled to coat-of-arms." 



THE COLONIAL SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS. 

Incorporated December 29th, 1892. 

"OBJECTS. 

" For the purpose of collecting and preserving mementoes of 
our Colonial Ancestors ; propagating knowledge of their lives and 
deeds by the publication of ancient documents and records ; culti- 
vating an interest in the history of our country, and more especially 
of the Colonies of Plymouth and The Massachusetts Bay ; encour- 
aging individual research into the part taken by our forefathers in 
the building of our nation ; promoting intelligent discussion of events 
in which the people of our Commonwealth have been concerned, in 
order that justice may be done to participants and false claims 
silenced ; and inspiring among our members a spirit of fellowship 
based upon a proper appreciation of our common ancestry. 

" ELIGIBILITY. 

** The number of Resident Members of the Society shall never 
exceed one hundred. They shall be elected from among the citizens 
of Massachusetts, and shall cease to be members whenever they 
cease to be residents thereof The number of Honorary Members 
never shall exceed twenty. 



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* * They shall be elected from among non-residents of Massachu- 
setts, and shall cease to be members if at any time they become both 
citizens and permanent residents thereof But no person shall be 
eligible to membership who cannot prove, by documentary evidence 
satisfactory to the Council, his lineal descent from an ancestor who 
was a resident of the Colonies of Plymouth or The Massachusetts 
Bay." 



THE HOLLAND SOCIETY OF NEW YORK. 

Incorporated May 12th, 1875. 

"OBJECTS. 

''First. — To collect and preserve information respecting the 
early history and settlement of the city and State of New York by 
the Dutch, and to discover, collect, and preserve all still existing 
documents, monuments, etc., relating to their genealogy and his- 
tory. 

'' Seco7id. — To perpetuate the memory and foster and promote 
the principles and virtues of the Dutch ancestors of its members, and 
to promote social intercourse among the latter. 

" Third. — To gather by degrees a library for the use of the 
Society, composed of all obtainable books, monographs, pamphlets, 
manuscripts, etc. , relating to the Dutch in America. 

'''Fourth. — To cause statedly to be prepared and read before the 
Society, papers, essays, etc. , on questions in the history or genealogy 
of the Dutch in America. 

" Fifth.— To cause to be prepared and published, when the 
requisite materials have been discovered and procured, collections 
for a memorial history of the Dutch in America, wherein shall be 
particularly set forth the part belonging to that element in the growth 
and development of American character, institutions, and progress. ' ' 

" ELIGIBILITY 

" Sec. I. — No one shall be eligible as a member unless he be of 
full age, of respectable standing in society, of good moral char- 
acter, and the descendant, in the direct male line, of a Dutchman 



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who was a native or resident of New York or of the American colo- 
nies prior to the year 1675. This shall include those of other former 
nationalities who found in Holland a refuge or a home, and whose 
descendants in the male line came to this country as Dutch settlers, 
speaking Dutch as their native tongue. This shall also include 
descendants in the male line of Dutch settlers who were born within 
the limits of Dutch settlements, and descendants in the male line of 
persons who possessed the rights of Dutch citizenship with Dutch 
settlements in America, prior to the year 1675 ; also any descendant, 
in the direct male line, of a Dutchman, one of whose descendants 
became a member of this Society prior to June 16, 1886." 



The Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the 
UNITED States. 

Instituted April 15, 1865. 
"OBJECTS. 

" To cherish the memories and associations of the war waged in 
defense of the unity and indivisability of the Republic ; strengthen 
the ties of fraternal fellowship and sympathy formed by companion- 
ship-in- arms ; advance the best interests of the soldiers and sailors 
of the United States, especially of those associated as companions 
of this Order, and extend all possible relief to their widows and 
children ; foster the cultivation of military and naval science ; enforce 
unqualified allegiance to the General Government ; protect the rights 
and liberties of American citizenship, and maintain National Honor, 
Union, and Independence." 

"ELIGIBILITY. 

'' First Class. — ist. Commissioned officers and honorably dis- 
charged commissioned officers of the United States Army, Navy, 
and Marine Corps, Regular or Volunteer, including officers of assim- 
ilated or corresponding rank by appointment of the Secretary of 
War or Navy, who were actually engaged in the suppression of the 
Rebellion prior to the fifteenth day of April, 1865, and whose names 



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appear in the Official Registers of the United States Army and Navy 
and of the Vohinteer Force of the United States Army, or served 
under the President's call of the fifteenth day of April, 1861 ; or 
who, having served as non-commissioned officers, warrant officers, 
or enlisted men during the War of the Rebellion, have since been 
commissioned as officers in the United States Army, Navy, or Marine 
Corps, or were commissioned as officers in the Volunteer Force prior 
to the twentieth day of August, 1866 ; and persons who, having 
served as non-commissioned officers, warrant officers, or enlisted 
men as aforesaid, shall have become eligible to membership by 
inheritance from officers not members of the Order, but who were 
eligible as such, who shall have died. Those elected under the 
provisions of this clause shall be designated Original Companions 
of the First Class. 2d. The eldest direct male lineal descendants, 
according to the rules of primogeniture, of deceased Original Com- 
panions of the First Class, and of officers not members of the 
Order, but who were eligible as such, who shall have died ; and 
if there are no such descendants, then the male heirs of such de- 
ceased Companions or officers in the collateral branches of their 
families in the order of genealogical succession according to the 
rules of primogeniture, disregarding intervening female lines. Pro- 
vided, however. Firsts That the inheritance shall in every case of 
succession be traced anew from the original founder of the member- 
ship in the Order, or deceased officer as aforesaid, and not otherwise, 
and shall be limited in cases of collateral succession to the brothers, 
and descendants of brothers and sisters, of such Original Companion 
or deceased officer ; in cases of representation through females, the 
elder branches shall be preferred to the younger : Seco7id, That any 
person eligible to membership by inheritance, or by renunciation of 
another, may, in writing, waive and renounce his right to such eligi- 
bility in favor of the person next entitled at the time of such renunci- 
ation, excepting that no person who is a direct lineal descendant of 
an Original Companion or deceased officer as aforesaid, shall be 
allowed to waive his right in favor of a collateral relative of such 
Original Companion or deceased officer : Thirds That in case a 
Companion of the First Class or person already eligible to member- 
ship is next in the line of inheritance from a deceased Original Com- 



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panion or officer as aforesaid, the eligibility to membership derived 
from such deceased Companion or officer shall devolve upon the 
person next entitled other than such living Companion or person 
already eligible or the direct lineal descendants of either ; but any 
Original Companion having no direct lineal descendant may, by 
writing filed with the Recorder of the Commandery in which he may 
be enrolled, or by his last will and testament, or instrument in the 
nature thereof, nominate for life his successor from among his male 
heirs within the said limits in the collateral branches of his family : 
Fourth, That in cases of inheritance by persons under the age of 
twenty-one years the right of succession to eligibility to membership, 
or of renunciation thereof, shall remain in abeyance until they shall 
attain that age ; Fifth, That the resignation, expulsion, or forfeiture 
of membership of a Companion who has attained such membership 
by inheritance shall only work as a waiver of his rights in favor of the 
next person in the line of inheritance from the Original Companion or 
deceased officer as aforesaid : Sixth, That no right of inheritance 
shall be derived from any Original Companion who has been expelled 
from the Order and not reinstated, but, in case an Original Com- 
panion shall have resigned or been dropped from the roll for non- 
payment of dues, his successor may be allowed, by a vote of a 
majority of the members of the Commandery present at any. stated 
meeting, to revive the said right : Seventh, That such descendants or 
collateral heirs shall have first filed affidavits setting forth the facts 
upon which eligibility to membership is claimed. 

''Second Class. — The eldest sons of living Original Companions 
of the First Class who shall have attained the age of twenty-one 
years. Upon the death of his father, a Companion of the Second 
Class shall become a Companion of the First Class, and be so an- 
nounced to the Order by circular. Companions of the Second Class 
shall have the right to vote In all cases except In elections for member- 
ship In the First Class. 

" Third Class. — Gentlemen who in civil life, during the Rebellion, 
were specially distinguished for conspicuous and consistent loyalty to 
the National Government, and were active and eminent in malnta'ning 
the supremacy of the same ; but the number of Companions of the 
Third Class in any Commandery shall not exceed the ratio of one to 



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thirty-three of those of the First Class. Provided, however, That no 
Companion of the Third Class shall be elected after the fifteenth day 
of April, 1890." 

The National Mary Washington Memorial Association. 

Organized February 22, 1890, for 1000 years. 
"OBJECTS. 

"The particular objects of the Society are the erection of a 
suitable monument to Mary, the mother of George Washington, 
including the acquisition of such ground as may be proper, and the 
improvement thereof by enclosure and otherwise, and the mainte- 
nance and preservation in good order, in perpetuity, of said monu- 
ment with the improvements." 

"CONTRIBUTORS. 

' ' Any person who shall pay to the Treasurer annually the sum 
of one dollar or more shall be recorded as a contributor for that year 
and shall be published as such in the annual report of the Board of 
Directors. ' ' 

Providing for a List of Life Members. 

"35. — The payment of twenty-five dollars by one person at the 
same time shall entitle the person so paying to an Hereditary Life 
Membership in the Association, the certificate of which is a medal in 
the form of a star with the head of Mary, the mother of Washing- 
ton, in the center, the initials of the Association (N. M. W. M. A.) 
in blue and white enamel upon the five points on the obverse side, 
and the Washington Heraldic colors on the reverse side. 

* ' This Association being organized for perpetuity, these Life 
Members, and their successors by inheritance, are privileged to aid 
in caring for the protection and preservation of the grave and monu- 
ment of the mother of Washington for all future time. These medals 
are as an inheritance to descend from mother to daughter or grand- 
daughter, and so on in the direct female line, or failing these, by will 
or deed, and entitle the inheritor to a vote at all meetings of the 
Association after February 2 2d, 1896. 

' * No medals will be given out after that date. ' ' 



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THE National Society of the Colonial Dames of America. 

Organized April 8th, 1891. 

" objects. 

" Its object is to collect American manuscript, traditions, relics, 
and mementoes of by-gone days for preservation, to hold a loan ex- 
hibition as the Society may direct, to commemorate the success of 
the American Revolution and consequent birth of our glorious 
Republic ; to diffuse healthful and intelligent information in whatever 
concerns the past and tends to create popular interest in American 
history ; to inspire genuine love of country in every heart within its 
range of influence ; and to teach the young that it is a sacred obliga- 
tion to do justice and honor to heroic ancestors whose ability, valour, 
sufferings, and achievements are beyond all praise." 

'* eligibility. 

' ' The Society is composed entirely of women who are descended 
in their own right from some ancestor of worthy life who came to 
reside in an American Colony prior to 1750, which ancestor or some 
one of his descendants, being a lineal ascendant of the applicant, 
shall have rendered efficient service to his country during the Colo- 
nial period, either in the founding of a commonwealth, or of an 
institution which has survived and developed into importance, or 
who shall have held an important position in the Colonial govern- 
ment, and who by distinguished services shall have contributed to 
the founding of this great and powerful nation. Services rendered 
after 1783 not recognized. One line of ancestry is sufficient for 
entry to the Society. 

" It is requested that marriage dates be inserted on the margin 
of the eligibility paper, and whenever reference is made to family 
records or family Bibles as genealogical proof, the certified copies of 
such proof shall accompany the application papers. 

" The National Society is divided into State Societies composed 
of the thirteen original States, and the District of Columbia. In 
non-Colonial States branches are formed by ladies who are qualified 
and properly accepted as members in the Colonial State from which 



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they claim descent. The Initiation fee and dues are paid by them 
into the Colonial State Society from which she has received her cer- 
tificate of membership. 

' ' Each Colonial State Society has its own by-laws and eligibility 
list." 

THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE SOCIETY. 

" Provincial Officers : Governor, Deputy Governor, Provin- 
cial Councillor, Secretary of the Province, Treasurer of the Province, 
Registrar-General, Surveyor- General, 1 682-1 775 ; Receiver-General 
and Secretary of the Land Office, Commissioners on Boundaries 
between Provinces, Collector of the Port of Philadelphia, 1682-1774 ; 
Keeper of the Great Seal, Master of the Rolls, Mayor of Philadel- 
phia, 1691-1776 ; Commissioners and Commissary under the Dutch 
and Swedes. 

"Founders: Founder of the University of Pennsylvania, 
1749; Founder of the Philadelphia Library, 1731 ; Founder of the 
American Philosophical Society, 1743 ; Founder of the Pennsylvania 
Hospital, 1752. 

"Assemblies, Conventions and Committees: Member of 
the Provincial Assembly, Member of the Provincial Conferences, 
Member of Conventions prior to July 4, 1776 ; Member of Con- 
gresses, 1754 and 1765 ; Delegate to Committees of Correspondence 
and Safety, 1772-1776 ; Member of Continental Congresses, 1774, 
1775, 1776 ; Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Member of 
Common Council, 1701-1776. 

"Judiciary : Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice of the 
Peace and Courts who served three or more terms, Attorney-General, 
Judge Advocate, Judge of the Court of the Admiralty. 

" Military aind Naval : Member of the Board of War, Mem- 
ber of the Navy Board, Commissioned Officer of the regular Pro- 
vincial or Colonial Military or Naval Forces." 

THE MARYLAND STATE SOCIETY. 

"Provincial Officers: Lords Proprietary, Governor, Dep- 
uty Governor, Secretary of the Province, Treasurers of Eastern and 
Western Shores, Provincial Councillors, Keeper of the Great Seal, 



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Surveyor- General, Rectors of Parishes, Commissioner of Land 
Office, High Sheriffs, Commanders of Counties, Commissioners 
appointed by ' Council of State' of Commonwealth of England, and 
Commissioners appointed by their authority for governing the Prov- 
ince, Commissioners on Boundaries between Provinces, Mayor of 
St. Mary's, Mayor of Annapolis, Collector of Customs. 

"Assemblies, Conventions and Committees: Members of 
Provincial Assembly, Members of Congress, 1754 and 1765 ; Mem- 
bers of Maryland Convention and Councils of Safety, Members of 
Committees of Correspondence, Members of Continental Congress, 
1 774-1 776 ; Signers of the Declaration of Independence, Signers of 
Maryland Declaration of Independence, July 3, 1776. 

"Judiciary: Counsellor, Attorney- General, Judge of the Court 
of Admiralty, Justices or Judges of Provincial Courts, Justices or 
Commissioners of the Peace, Register High Court of Chancery. 

"Military or Naval: Commissioned Officers of the Regu- 
lar Provincial or Colonial Military or Naval Forces, Commissioned 
Officers of the Continental Army, Navy or State, or Provincial 
troops during the War of the Revolution, Founders of King Will- 
iam's School, Services rendered after July 6, 1776, not recognized 
except as supplementary." 

THE NEW JERSEY STATE SOCIETY. 

''Provincial Officers: Governors under the Swedes, 
Director-General under the Dutch, Vice-Director, Governors, Dep- 
uty-Governors, sometimes called Lieutenant-Governors, Kings or 
Governors' Council, Treasurers and Secretaries of the Province, 
Surveyor-General, Burgesses or Mayors of what were important 
settlements. Commissioners and Collectors of Customs, Receiver- 
General, Commissioner in Land Office, Commissioners on Bounda- 
ries between Provinces, Commissioners to the Indians appointed by 
the Colonial Government, High Sheriffs, Missionaries from 'The 
Society of the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, ' Post- 
master-General or Comptroller of P. O. 

"Assemblies, Conventions and Committees: Speaker, 
Clerk and Representatives to the General Assembly, Members of 
Provincial Congress, Members of Continental Congress, Delegates 



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to the Committees of Correspondence and Safety, Signers of Declara- 
tion of Independence, Proprietors of West and East Jersey who 
came to this country, viz : David Barclay, Arent Sonmans, William 
Penn, Thomas Rudyard, Samuel Groom, Thomas Hart, Clement 
Plumsted, Garven Laurie, Edward Byllynge, Robert Turner and 
Thomas Warne, Deputy-Secretary and Register for the Proprietors. 
"Judiciary: Judges of the High Court of Chancery, Attor- 
ney-General, Chief Justices of Supreme Court (formerly called Court 
of Assize and then Court of Common Right), Associate Judges of 
the Supreme Court, Clerks and Registers of the Courts, Justices of 
the Peace (as in N. J. — they are members of the Supreme Court), 
King's Attorneys, Judges of Court of Oyer and Terminer, Judges of 
Court of Common Pleas." 

THE DELAWARE STATE SOCIETY. 

"Provincial Officers: Governor, Deputy-Governor, Pro- 
vincial Councillors, Secretary of the Province, Treasurer of the Pro- 
vince, Register-General, Surveyor-General, 1682-1775 ; Receiver- 
General and Secretary of the Land Office, Commissioners on Bound- 
aries between Provinces, Collector of the Port of New Castle, 1682- 
1774; Keeper of the Great Seal, Master of the Rolls, 1682-1777 ; 
Mayor until 1776, Commissioners and Commissaries under the 
Dutch and Swedes, Burgess. 

"Assemblies, Conventions and Committees: Members of 
Provincial Assemblies, Members of the Provincial Conferences, 
Conventions prior to March 5, 1777 ; Members of Congress, 1754 
and 1765 ; Delegates to Committees of Correspondence and of 
Safety, 1772-1777 ; Members of Supreme Executive Council, March 
5, 1777 ; Members of Continental Congress, 1774-1783 ; Signers of 
the Declaration of Independence, Members of Common Council, 
1701-1777. 

"Judiciary : Justices of the Supreme Court, Justices of the 
Peace and Courts who served three or more terms, Attorney-Gen- 
eral, Judge Advocate, Judge of the Court of Admiralty, Judge of 
the Probate Court, High Sheriff, Sheriff or Marshal, Recorder or 
Register of Wills. 



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"Military and Naval: Members of the Board of War, 
Members of the Navy Board, Commissioned Officers of the Conti- 
nental Army, Navy or State, or Provincial Troops, Commissioned 
Officers of the Regular Provincial or Colonial Military or Naval 
Forces, Revolutionary ser\'ice alone, without ser\'ice strictly Colonial 
will not render descendants eligible to membership." 

THE DISTRICT OF COLUA\BIA SOCIETY. 

" Provinxial Officers: Governors, Lieutenant-Governors, 
Founders of Colonies, Directors-General, Lords Proprietary', Presi- 
dents, Commissioners, Vice-Directors, Members of the King's Coun- 
cil, Members of the General Court, Burgesses, Delegates and Repre- 
sentatives, Members of the Upper or Lower House of the Legisla- 
tive bodies or Assemblies of any of the Colonies. 

"Judiciary: Judges, Recorders-General, or Secretaries of 
State, Attorneys-General, Treasurers-General, Receivers of Royal 
Revenues, Escheators-General, Disbursers of funds of Colonies, 
Royal Naval Officers, Ambassadors to the Crown, High Sheriffs, 
Colonels of Counties, Lieutenants of Counties, Sur\-eyors-General, 
Founders of Colonial Colleges now existing, IMembers of Congresses 
prior to 1783, Commissioned Officers of the Regular, Provincial or 
Colonial Military forces, or Continental Army, Navy or State troops ; 
Members of Committees for Defence and Correspondence." 

THE VIRGINIA State Society. 

"The Historic Founders (1606-16 16) of the first EngHsh Colony 
at Jamestown. 

' ' Incorporators named in the Royal Charter for Virginia of 
April ID, 1606 ; May 28, 1609 and March 12, 1612. 

' ' All officials in Virginia prior to the arrival of Sir George 
Yeardly, on April 29, (N. S.) 1619, with the ' Great Charter or Com- 
mission of privileges, order and laws' for the Colony. 

"The recognized Historic Founders of any of the original New 
England Colonies, or of the King's Province, or of any of the Amer- 
ican Colonies or Provinces as constituted in 1775, including those 
who are especially named in Colonial or Provincial Charters from 
the Crown or Parliament of England at a later date than 1616. 



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"The Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, or Deputy-Governor in 
Virginia. The President and Members of the Council of the State 
or Upper House. The Speaker and Members of the House of 
Burgesses or Lower House. The Secretary of State. The Treas- 
urer-General. The Attorney-General. The Auditor. The Lieu- 
tenant of the County and Chief Commander of His Majesty's forces 
in said County. The Judges of the Superior Courts of Law and 
Equity. 

' ' The Commissioned Officers of Virginia forces who actually 
served a campaign in any of the Colonial Wars. 

" The Commissary of the Bishop of London in Virginia. 

"The Trustees of William and Mary's College, designated in 
the Royal Charter of 1693, who resided in America, and the Presi- 
dents and Rectors of that College. 

'* Patrons of Colonization, of Arts, of Science, of Learning, of 
Mining, Manufactures and Agriculture, and others whose eminent 
and efficient services to the Colony were publicly acknowledged, 
either by special Resolution of the Councils or by Act of the As- 
sembly, or by a reward from the Government. 

" Members of the Revolutionary Conventions of 1 774-1 776. 

"Members of the Committee of Safety, 1775-1776. Members 
of the Continental Congresses of 1774, 1775 and 1776. 

" Signers of the Declaration of Independence. 

"Commissioned Officers of the Continental Army, Navy or 
State troops, or of the French contingent in the United States, who 
actually served honorably in the capacity of Officers, not less than 
three years during the War of the Revolution, or who were killed or 
died while in such service. 

' ' Colonists and Officials in other Colonies and States of equiva- 
lent rank, with those considered eligible in Virginia." 

THE State of Rhode Island Society. 

* ' No service of an ancestor shall be deemed as qualifying ser- 
vice for admission in this Society where such ancestor adhered to or 
took protection from the enemy during the War of the Revolution, 
or failed to maintain an honorable record. 



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" No person shall be eligible for admission as a member in this 
Society, unless she be lineally descended from an ancestor as the 
propositus whose qualifying services to enable the descendant to 
acquire such membership shall for the State of Rhode Island be 
comprised in, and limited and restricted to one of the following- 
classes, viz : 

" I. Roger Williams : Recognized Historic Founder of the 
State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations whose spirit of 
brotherly love controlled dissensions and finally brought the separate 
governments (or colonies) under one charter. 

'* 2. Founders of the Historic Charter Colonies : Provi- 
dence, 1636 ; Portsmouth, 1638 ; Newport, 1639, and Warwick, 
1642. The uniting of these Colonies in 1647, under the parliament- 
ary charter of 1643, ^^i^^ the foundation of the present State of 
Rhode Island. 

"Accompanied Roger Williams: William Harris, John 
Smith, Francis Wickes (Weeks), Thomas Angell, Joshua Verin. 

** Original Proprietors of Providence Plantations: 
Roger Williams (Grantor), Stukely Westcott, William Arnold, 
Thomas James, Robert Cole, John Greene, John Throckmorton, 
William Harris, William Carpenter, Thomas Olney (first Treas.), 
Francis Weston, Richard Waterman, Ezekiel Holyman. 

''Signers of the first written Compact of the Prov- 
idence Plantations : Richard Scott, Wm. Reynolds, John Field, 
Chad Brown, John Warner, George Richard, Edward Cope, Thomas 
Angell, Thomas Harris, Francis Wickes, Benedict Arnold, Joshua 
Winsor, Wm. Wickenden. 

"Original Proprietors of Aquidneck, who Settled 
Pocasset (later Portsmouth) 1638 : Wm. Coddington, John 
Clarke, Wm. Hutchinson, John Coggeshall, Wm. Aspinwall, Samuel 
Wilmore, John Porter, John Sanford, Ed. Hutchinson, Jr., Thomas 
Savage, Wm. Dyre, Wm. Freeborne, Phillip Shearman, John 
Walker, Richard Carder, Wm. Baulston, Ed. Hutchinson, Sr., 
Henry Bull. 

"Settled Newport, 1639 : Wm. Coddington, Judge; Nich- 
olas Easton, Elder ; John Coggeshall, Elder ; Wm. Brenton, Elder ; 



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John Clarke, Jeremy Clarke, Thomas Hazard, Henry Bull, Wil- 
liam Dyre, Clerk. 

" Purchasers of Warwick, 1642 : Randal Holden, John 
Greene, John Weeks (or Wickes), Francis Weston, Samuel Gorton, 
Richard Waterman, John Warner, Richard Carder, Samson Shatton, 
Robert Potter, Wm. Wuddall, Nicholas Power. 

"3. Those Named in the Royal Charter of Charles H. 
(1663) '■ Benjamin Arnold, Wm. Brenton, Wm. Baulston, John Por- 
ter, Roger Williams, Thomas Olney, William Coddington, Samuel 
Gorton, Gregory Dexter, John Roome, Richard Tew, John Smith, 
John Green, John Coggeshall, James Barker, Wm. Field, Joseph 
Clarke, Nicholas Easton, John Weeks, Randall Holden, Samuel 
Wilbore, Thomas Harris, William Dyre. 

"4. Purchasers of the King's Province (1659): John 
Winthrop, Governor of Connecticut ; Major Humphrey Atherton, of 
Massachusetts ; Richard Smith, Sr. ; Richard Smith, Jr. ; Lieut. 
Wm. Hudson, of Boston ; John Tinker, of Nashua. Already hold- 
ing lands— James Smith, Wm. Holding, Richard Smith, Sr., Rich- 
ard Smith, Jr. These men were later admitted to the company — 
Edward Hutchinson, Major Josias Winslow, Capt. Thomas Willett, 
Mr. John Browne. 

"5. Judges of Aquidneck (from March, 1638, to March, 
1640, when title was changed to Governor) : William Coddington, 
William Hutchinson. 

** 6. Elders of Aquidneck : Three elders were elected to assist 
the Judge in January, 1639, but in May of the same year, seven 
assistants were elected in the place of the Elders who had accompanied 
Judge Coddington to Newport, where the office continued till 
March 1640, when it was also changed to assistant. Three Elders — 
Nicholas Easton, John Coggeshall, William Brenton. 

"7. Presidents OR Commissioners : Governors and Deputy- 
Governors of the above-named Colonies or Province. 

' ' 8. Speakers of the House of Deputies serving not less than one 
elective term, and. Assistants or Deputies serving not less than two 
elective terms. 

"9. Commissioners and Agents to Foreign Countries, 
AND Commissioners to the Congresses of 1754 : Stephen Hop- 



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kins and Martin Howard, Jr. ; 1765, Metcalf Bowler and Henry- 
Ward, Esq. ; 1774, 1775, 1776, Stephen Hopkins and Samuel Ward. 

*'io. Judges of the Supreme, or Equivalent Superior, 
Courts of Judicature : Judges of the Admiralty, and highest 
Chancery Courts, Attorneys-General and Kings Attorneys, Justices 
or Commissioners of the Peace, General Recorders or Secretaries of 
State, General Treasurers. 

'* II. Commissioned Officers of the Navy, Field, Army of Ob- 
servation, and Militia of these Colonies before July 4, 1776, who 
served honorably. 

"12. Incorporators of Brown University (1764). 

"13. Signers of the Declaration of Independence: 
Stephen Hopkins and William Ellery." 

The Massachusetts State Society. 

"The Recognized Historic Founders of Plymouth Plantation, 
and the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, including those who were 
especially named in Colonial or Provincial Charters or Patents. 

"Governors, Deputy or Lieutenant-Governors, Assistants or 
Councillors, Treasurers and Receivers-General ; Speakers of the 
House, who served not less than two sessions in such capacity ; 
Deputies or Representatives to the General Court, who served not 
less than three elective terms ; Commissioners of the Confederacy 
and Agents of the Colonies Abroad. 

"Judges of the County Courts, Judges of Military Court or 
Commission, Judges of Superior Courts of Judicature and Public 
Justice, Judges of the Courts of Admiralty, Judges of Probate in 
each County appointed by the Governor and Council, Judges of 
Court of Common Pleas, Attorneys-General, and Solicitors-General, 
Secretaries of the Colony. 

' ' Commissioned Officers of the Regular Colonial or Provincial 
Military forces, who served honorably, or who died in active service 
during any of the wars waged against Indian tribes or foreign 
nations, prior to the year i']']^, provided, that, in case of a regular 
officer of the British Army, he shall have served in America in one 
of such wars, and subsequently become a resident in this Colony. 



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"Commissioners and Delegates to the Provincial General Con- 
gresses of 1754, 1765 ; Commissioners on Boundaries between Prov- 
inces ; the Founders and Presidents of Harvard College, and Treas- 
urers and Fellows prior to 1707 ; Ministers of Parishes who were 
active in founding or forwarding the interests of the Colonies prior 
to 1675 ; Officers of the Revolutionary period ; Signers of the 
Declaration of Independence ; Members of the Continental Con- 
gresses, 1774, 1775, 1776. Members of the Provincial Congresses 
of 1775, 1776 ; Commissioned Officers of the Continental Army or 
Navy of the Colony who actually served as officers in the War of 
the Revolution ; Agents or Ministers from the United Colonies to 
foreign countries." 

THE New York State Society. 

" Dutch Period : Director- General of the Province of Nieuw 
Netherland, Vice-Directors of Fort Orange and of the South River 
Colony, Members of the Council of the Director-General, Members 
of the Representative Bodies of Nieuw Netherland, known as ' The 
Twelve Men,' 'The Eight Men' and 'The Nine Men ;' Members of 
the Provincial Conventions, Patroons of Nieuw Netherland, Burgo- 
meisters of Nieuw Amsterdam, Schout-Fiscaal, Acting Commission- 
ers of Indian Affairs, as Magistrates of Fort Orange ; Commissioners 
of Boundaries, and of Treaties with other Colonies ; Commissioned 
Officers of Troops, under Dutch Colonial Rule. 

"English Period: Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Chief 
Justice of the Province, Members of the Governor's Council, Secre- 
tary of the Province, Deputy Secretary, Justices of the Supreme 
Court, Judge of the Court of Admiralty, Chancellor, Master of the 
Rolls, Attorney-General, Presiding Judge of the Court of Common 
Pleas, High Sheriffs of Yorkshire (viz : Long Island, Staten Island 
and Westchester County), and of Esopus (viz : Ulster and Dutchess 
counties) ; Speaker of the Provincial Assembly, Members of the 
Assembly who served two or more years, Members of the Colonial 
Congresses of 1722, 1754 and 1765 ; Commander of the Forces of 
the Province, Commissioned Officers of the Militia of the Province, 
Commissioners appointed to treat with other Colonies, Commissioners 



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of Indian Affairs prior to 1776, Receiver-General of the Province, 
Surveyor- General of the Lands, Surveyor of the King's Woods, 
Mayor and Recorder of Albany, prior to 1776 ; Mayor and Recorder 
of New York, prior to 1776 ; Lord of Manors. 

''American Period : Members of the Continental Congresses 
of 1774, 1775 and 1776 ; Members of the Commissioners of Safety, 
prior to July 4, 1776 ; Members of the Provincial Congresses of 1775 
and 1776, Signers of the Declaration of Independence." 

THE SOUTH CAROLINA STATE SOCIETY. 

"Provincial Officers: Lord's Proprietary, Landgraves and 
Proprietary, Governors and Royal Governor, Deputy or Lieutenant- 
Governor ; Members of the King's Council, Members of the Gov- 
ernor's Council, Treasurer and Secretary of the Province, Commis- 
sioners and Collectors of Customs, Commissioners of Land Offices, 
on Boundaries, to the Indians ; Commissary of the Bishop of London, 
Missionaries from ' The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in 
Foreign Parts,' Pastors of the French Protestant Churches, Receiver- 
General and Provost Marshal. 

"Assemblies, Conventions and Committees: Speaker, 
Clerk and Representatives of the General Assembly ; Members of the 
Provincial and Continental Congress, Members of Councils of Safety 
and Correspondence, Signers of the Declaration of Independence, 
Citizens exiled to St. Augustine by the British. 

"Judiciary : Chief Justice, Judges of Supreme Courts of Law 
and Equity, Attorney-General, Judges of Provincial Courts, Military 
and Navy, prior to 1776 ; Commissioned Officers of the Regular Con- 
tinental and Provincial Military and Naval Forces, Patrons of Art, 
Science, Learning and Agriculture, whose efficient services to the 
Colony were publicly acknowledged ; Founders of the Charleston 
Library, 1748 ; Founders of the South Carolina Society, 1737." 

THE CONNECTICUT STATE SOCIETY. 

" The recognized Historic Founders of the Colonies of Connec- 
ticut and New Haven, Corporators named in the Charter of Charles 
II., Trustees named in the Act of 1701, establishing a collegiate 
school (Yale College), also the President and Fellows named in the 



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New Charter, 1745 ; Governors, Deputy Governors, Colonial Sec- 
retaries, Colonial Treasurers, Marshals of the General Court or High 
Sheriffs, Magistrates, Assistants or Members of the Upper House of 
the General Court, who served not less than three years ; Speakers of 
the Lower House, Clerks of the Lower House, Members of the Lower 
House of the General Court, who served not less than three years ; 
Judges of the Superior and County Courts, Members of the Committee 
of the Pay-table, Preachers of Election Sermons and settled Ministers, 
who rendered distinguished service in Connecticut prior to 1750 ; Com- 
missioners of the United Colonies, Commissioners for the adjustment of 
Colonial Boundaries, Commissioners appointed to the Congresses of 
17.54, 1765, 1774 : Commissioned Officers of the Colonial Military or 
Naval forces. Members of Colonial Congresses from 1775 to 1783, 
Agents or Ministers from the United Colonies to foreign countries. 
Members of the Councils of Safety, Commissioned Officers of the Con- 
tinental Army or Navy, or in the Military or Naval forces of the Colony, 
who actually served as officers in the war of the Revolution ; Signers 
of the Declaration of Independence. Revolutionary service alone, 
without service strictly Colonial, will not render descendants eligible 
to membership." 

THE Georgia State Society. 

"Provincial Offices: — Governors, Lieutenant-Governors, 
Members of the Governor's Council, Surveyors-General of the Cus- 
toms, Surveyors- General of Lands, Secretaries and Registers of 
Grants, Receivers-General, King's Treasurers, Proprietors of the 
Province of Georgia, who came to this country with General Ogle- 
thorpe ; Missionaries from * The Society of the Propagation of the 
Gospel in Foreign Parts,' Postmaster-General or Comptroller of P.O., 
Commissioners on Boundaries between Provinces, Commissioners to 
the Indians appointed by Colonial Government. 

"Assemblies, Conventions and Committees: — Speakers 
of the Provincial Assembly, Members of the Assembly who served 
two years, Members of the Provincial Congresses, 1722, 1754, 1759, 
1775) 1776 ; Members of the Committee of Safety, Signers of the 
Declaration of Independence, Members of the Continental Congresses, 
1774, 1775, 1776 ; Delegates to the Committee of Correspondence 
and Safety. 



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' ' Judiciary : — Chief Justices of the Province of Georgia, Justices 
of the Supreme Court, Attorney- General, Judges of the Court of 
Admiralty, Presiding Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, Clerks 
of the Crown and Pleas, Masters in Chancery, Registers in Chancery. 

" Founders of Academies or Colleges in Georgia. 

"Military and Navy : — Commissioned Officers in the Prov- 
ince of Georgia, Naval Officers. All Revolutionary services rendered 
by Colonial ancestors, or by descendants of Colonial ancestors prior 
to 1783, may be added under supplementary details. No applicant is 
eligible under Revolutionary record alone." 

The New Hampshire State Society. 

** Recognized Historic Founders of the Colony of New Hamp- 
shire, Corporators named in the Charter of Charles H., Governors 
under the English, Governors, Deputy-Governors, sometimes called 
Lieutenant-Governors ; King's or Governor's Council, Treasurers 
and Secretaries of the Province, Manager-General, Marshals of the 
General Court or High Sheriffs, Commissioners and Collectors of 
Customs, Receiver-General, Commissioners in Land Office, Commis- 
sioners on Boundaries between Provinces, Commissioners to the 
Indians appointed by Colonial Government, Members of the Council 
of Safety, Magistrates, Members of the Committee of the Pay-Table, 
Preachers of Election Sermons and settled Clergymen, who rendered 
distinguished service in New Hampshire prior to 1750." 

The North Carolina State Society. 

"Provincial Offices: — Lords Proprietors, Landgraves and 
Proprietary and Royal Governors, Deputies and Lieutenant-Govern- 
ors, Members of the King's Council, Members of the House of 
Burgess or Assembly, Members of the Governor's Council, Treas- 
urers and Secretary of the Provinces, Commissioners of the Provinces, 
Commissary of the Bishop of London, Receiver-General, Surveyor- 
General, Collector and Commissioner of Customs, High Sheriffs. 

"Assemblies, Conventions and Committees :— Speaker, 
Clerks and Representatives of General Assemblies, Members of Pro- 
vincial and Continental Congress, Members of Councils of Safety and 
Correspondence, Signers of Declaration of Independence, Signers of 



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Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, Members of Provincial 
Congress from 1774 to 1776, Members of Continental Congress from 
1774 to r776. 

"Judiciary: — Chief Justice, Attorney-General, Solicitor-Gen- 
eral, Judges of Provincial and Colonial Courts, Justice of Peace. 

' ' Founders : — Founders of Towns, Colleges or Institutions, 
which have survived and developed into importance. 

" Military and Navy :— Commissioned officers of the Regular 
Colonial or Provincial Military or Naval forces ; Revolutionary ser- 
vice alone will not render a candidate eligible to membership ; but 
such services can be added as supplementary if so desired." 

THE New England Society in the City of New York. 

Organized May 6th, 1805. Incorporated April 15th, 1833. 

''objects.* 

"To commemorate the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers on 
Plymouth Rock ; to promote friendship, charity, and mutual assist- 
ance ; and for literary purposes." 

"ELIGIBILITY. 

' ' Any person of the age of eighteen years and over, being a 
native, or descendant of a native, of any of the New England States, 
and of good moral character, is eligible to membership, wherever he 
may reside." 

THE Order of Washington. 

"ELIGIBILITY. 

** Eligibility to membership consists in descent from 'someone 
who participated in the formation of this nation by holding some offi- 
cial position in a civil, military, naval or marine capacity, between or 
before 1750 and 1776.' There is a Supreme Council to govern the 
Order, who also have power to confer membership upon anyone who, 
in their judgment, has acquired sufficient distinction in art, literature, 
any of the sciences or learned professions, or in the military or marine 
service of the United States." 



*New England Societies in different states have about the same objects 
and requirements for membership. 



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THE PENNSYLVANIA-GERMAN SOCIETY. 
"OBJECTS. 

' ' To perpetuate the memory and foster the principles and virtues 
of the German ancestors of its members, and to promote social inter- 
course among the latter. 

' ' To discover, collect and preserve all still existing documents, 
monuments, etc. , relating to the genealogy and history of the Penn- 
sylvania Germans, and from time to time publish them, particularly 
such as shall set forth the part belonging to this people in the growth 
and development of American character, institutions and progress. 

' ' To gather by degrees a library for the use of the Society, com- 
posed of all obtainable books, monographs, pamphlets, manuscripts, 
etc. , relating to the Pennsylvania Germans. 

* ' To cause statedly to be prepared and read before the Society, 
papers, essays, etc., on questions in the history or genealogy of the 
Pennsylvania Germans. ' ' 

" ELIGIBILITY. 

* ' No one shall be eligible as a regular member unless he be of 
full age, of good moral character, and a direct descendant of early 
German or Swiss emigrants to Pennsylvania. ' ' 

THE PILGRIM SOCIETY. 

Incorporated 1820. 
" OBJECT. 

' ' The landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth in the month of 
December, in the year 1620, and the permanent foundations laid by 
them in Church and Commonwealth under peculiar circumstances of 
privations and toil, are among the first lines of the history of New 
England and of these United States. Their various emigrations 
from the North of England, the land of their nativity, to Amsterdam 
and to Leyden, in Holland, in 1607 and 1609, and their final removal 
to America, in 1620, as above stated, are remarkable eras in their 
pilgrimage, the commemoration of which has become an anniversary 
piously celebrated on the 22d day of December by their descend- 
ants. 



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* ' That these historical events should be perpetuated by durable 
monuments, to be erected at Plymouth, is a desirable object in which 
public feeling very laudably concurs, and which has led to the insti- 
tution and incorporation of the Pilgrim Society." 

"ELIGIBILITY. 

' ' Any person of good moral character, who shall have paid into 
the treasury for the use of the Society, the sum of five dollars (or 
any person who shall have paid or shall pay the sum of five dollars 
in aid of the proposed monument to be erected in honor of the Pil- 
grims), and obtained a certificate or receipt from the Treasurer, or, 
in his absence, from the Recording Secretary, for the said sum, shall 
be entitled to membership, and the Secretary shall, on receipt of 
such document, deliver to every such person a diploma accord- 
ingly. 

' ' Any person of respectable character may be proposed as a 
candidate for honorary membership at any meeting of the Society, 
and, if a majority of votes be given in his favor, he shall be admitted 
as an honorary member. 

"Any person who shall present to the Library or Cabinet any 
article or articles which the Trustees shall deem sufficiently valuable 
to entitle him to membership, may be then admitted as a mem- 
ber." 



THE SOCIETY OF SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 

Instituted April 30th, 1889. 

" OBJECTS. 

"The objects of this Society shall be to perpetuate the memory 
of the men who, by their services or sacrifices during the war of the 
American Revolution, achieved the independence of the American 
people ; to unite and promote fellowship among their descendants ; 
to inspire them and the community at large with a more profound 
reverence for the principles of the government founded by our fore- 
fathers ; to encourage historical research in relation to the American 
Revolution ; to acquire and preserve the records of the individual 



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services of the patriots of the war, as well as documents, relics and 
landmarks ; to mark the scenes of the Revolution by appropriate 
memorials ; to celebrate the anniversaries of the prominent events of 
the war ; to foster true patriotism ; to maintain and extend the insti- 
tutions of American freedom ; and to carry out the purposes ex- 
pressed in the Preamble to the Constitution of our Country and the 
injunctions of Washington in his farewell address to the American 
people." 

" ELIGIBILITY. 

"Sec. I. Any man shall be eligible to membership in this 
Society, who, being of the age of twenty-one 'years or over, and a 
citizen of good repute in the community, is the lineal descendant of 
an ancestor, who was at all times unfailing in his loyalty to and ren- 
dered actual service in the cause of American Independence, either 
as an officer, soldier, seaman, marine, militiaman or minuteman, in 
the armed forces of the Continental Congress, or of any one of the 
several Colonies or States ; or as a signer of the Declaration of Inde- 
pendence ; or as a member of a Committee of Safety or Correspond- 
ence ; or as a member of any Continental, Provincial, or Colonial 
Congress or Legislature ; or as a civil officer, either of one of the 
Colonies or States or of the national government ; or as a recognized 
patriot who performed actual service by overt acts of resistance to 
the authority of Great Britain." 



The Society of the army of Georgia. 

Instituted December 15th, 1868. 
"OBJECTS. 

"The objects of the Association shall be to preserve and per- 
petuate the history of the Army of Georgia ; to preserve and unite 
those patriotic sentiments, and to maintain and strengthen that 
courteous and friendly intercourse for which the members of this 
army have always been distinguished ; to preserve the name and 
fame of the members of this army, who have fallen in the field, or 
who have otherwise perished in the service of their country, shall be 



one of the sacred duties of this Association, and no efforts shall be 
spared to collect and preserve in the archives of the Society, the 
testimonials of their deeds and services. 

' * This Society tenders to the widows and orphans of our fallen 
comrades its warmest sympathy, and readily pledges Itself to provide 
for the wants and relieve the suffering of all such of them as are des- 
titute, by the voluntary contribution of Its members, or in such other 
way as from time to time may be determined. 

** It further pledges itself to use all proper effort to procure for 
all such disabled soldiers, and their families, as are entitled thereto, 
the pensions and bounties now provided by law. 

"The welfare of the soldier's widow ; the good name and edu- 
cation of his children, shall always be regarded as a sacred privilege 
and trust of the Association." 

"ELIGIBILITY 

" All such officers and soldiers as have at any time served in this 
army, and who have been honorably discharged from such service ; 
or who remain in service in the regular army, who shall have sub- 
scribed to the Constitution and By-Laws of the Society. 

" Honorary members may, from time to time, be elected from 
among the officers of other armies of the United States, who have 
served with distinction In their armies." 



THE SOCIETY OF THE ARMY OF THE OHIO. 

Instituted December 15th, 1868. 

"OBJECTS. 

''To preserve and perpetuate the history of the Army of the 
Ohio ; to preserve and unite those patriotic sentiments, and to main- 
tain and strengthen that courteous and friendly intercourse for which 
the members of this army have always been distinguished. To pre- 
serve the name and fame of the members of this army who have 
fallen in the field, or otherwise perished in the service of their 
country, shall be one of the sacred duties of this Association, and 
no efforts shall be spared to collect and preserve, in the archives of 
the Society, the testimonials of their deeds and services. 



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* ' This Society tenders to the widows and orphans of our fallen 
comrades its warmest sympathy, and sacredly pledges itself to pro- 
vide for the wants and relieve the sufferings of all such as are desti- 
tute, by the voluntary contributions of the members, or in such other 
way as may from time to time be determined. It further pledges 
itself to use all proper effort, and procure for all such disabled sol- 
diers, and their families, as are entitled thereto, the pensions now 
provided by law. The welfare of the soldier's widow, the good 
name and education of his children, shall always be regarded as a 
sacred trust of the Association." 

"ELIGIBILITY. 

* * All such officers and soldiers as have at any time served in this 
army, and who have been honorably discharged from such service ; 
or who remain in service in the regular army, who shall have sub- 
scribed to the Constitution and By-Laws of the Society, and paid 
their initiation fee. 

' ' Honorary members may, from time to time, be elected from 
among the officers of other armies of the United States who have 
served with distinction in their armies. ' ' 



The Society of the Colonial dames of America. 

Organized May 23d, 1890. Incorporated April 13th, 1891. 
" OBJECTS. 

* ' Whereas^ Every year that passes renders it more manifest that 
there is a great and widespread interest being developed in all mat- 
ters appertaining to American history, an interest that is extending 
beyond our own borders, to every quarter of the habitable world, 
and, as the names of the founders of a nation are the first which 
greet the ears of growing youth in all countries, ancient or modern, 
it seems eminently fitting that the chief recipients of the blessings 
secured by such heroes and founders of the United States of Amer- 
ica should unite in doing them honor. 

*' Whereas y This fresh and healthful interest in the self-sacri- 
ficing services and noble achievements of our country's beginners, 



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inspires foreign visitors of intelligence and culture to make the most 
exhaustive inquiries into the history of their lives and characters and 
principles and the times in which they lived, and that neglect on the 
part of their descendants to possess the knowledge with which to 
furnish accurate information is inexcusable ; 

" Therefore, The Society of the Colonial Dames of America 
has been formed and established in the city of New York, that the 
women, as well as the men of kindred institutions, may interest 
themselves in the study of the past and become imbued with the 
lessons and the details of great events in which their ancestors were 
directly concerned and cultivate the spirit of genuine patriotism, 
becoming thereby prepared to aid at all times in perpetuating the 
memory of the brave men who in any important service by act or 
counsel, contributed to the achievement of American Independence 
and the consequent founding of this vast and wonderful empire of 
the Western world, and to promote as opportunity offers, the com- 
memorative celebrations of great historical events of national import- 
ance." 

" ELIGIBILITY. 

' ' The * Society of the Colonial Dames of America' shall be 
composed entirely of women who are legitimately descended in their 
own persons from some ancestor of worthy life who came to reside in 
an American Colony prior to 1776 and who was efficient in the ser- 
vice of the country either in the founding of a town or a common- 
wealth that has survived and developed into importance, who held an 
important position in the colonial government or who as a states- 
man or officer contributed to the achievement of American inde- 
pendence through which was created a great and powerful nation." 



THE MILITARY SOCIETY OF THE WAR OF 1812. 

Instituted September loth, 1890. 

" OBJECTS. 

'* Whereas, The Congress of the United States, by Act approved 
June 1 8th, 1812, declared War to exist between the United Kingdom 



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of Great Britain and Ireland and the dependencies thereof and the 
United States of America and their territories ; and 

'* IVkereas, This appeal to arms by the American People, after 
unexampled forbearance, was made necessary by a continued series 
of hostile encroachments and aggressions on their rights, interests, 
and territorial jurisdiction, and in defence of certain great principles 
of the Law of Nations which had been oppressively violated, for 
several years, to their great injury ; principles which may be sum- 
marized as follows : 

" T. — That the Independence and territorial sovereignty of the 
nation is inviolable. 

" 2. — That the National flag protects seamen on regularly docu- 
mented American vessels against Foreign impressment. 

"3. — That the Neutral flag covers enemy's goods with the 
exception of contraband of war. 

**4. — That neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of 
war, are not liable to capture under an enemy's flag ; and 

*' 5. — That blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective ; 
that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access 
to the coast of the enemy and preclude a reasonable chance of 
entrance ; and 

" Whereas, It is fitting that the principles for which 'The War 
of Eighteen Hundred and Twelve' was waged by the United States 
should ever be borne in remembrance and upheld by the American 
People. 

'^Therefore, This Military Society has been instituted by men 
who served in the Armies and Navies of the United States in the 
War of Eighteen Hundred and Twelve, to inspire among the mem- 
bers and among the American people the patriotic spirit of those 
who, in the military or naval service of the United States, or in ser- 
vice on private armed vessels of the United States, bearing commis- 
sions of letters of marque and reprisal from the United States, dur- 
ing the War, defended their Country against hostile encroachments 
on its rights and interests and caused its sovereignty and indepen- 
dence to be respected ; to inculcate and maintain the great principles 
of the Law of Nations for which they contended ; to collect and pre- 
serve the manuscript rolls, records, and other documents relating to 



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that War, and to commemorate the Land and Naval victories of the 
American arms in that War ; to undertake and assist in the erection 
of proper memorials thereof; to perpetuate the mutual friendships 
formed in that War under the pressure of common danger, and to 
promote fellowship among the members of every degree ; to partici- 
pate in the celebration of other historic patriotic events of National 
importance, and generally to take such measures, patriotic, histori- 
cal, literary, benevolent, and social, as may conduce to the general 
intendment of this Institution, and better accomplish the objects 
thereof" 

"ELIGIBILITY. 

"The members of this Institution shall be of two classes, 
namely : 

' ' Original or Hereditary, who shall be members in their own 
right, and 

^^ Honorary, who shall be members for their own lives without 
heritable succession. 

''Amendment to Article Governhig Hereditary Membership, 
adopted October i8th, i8gj : 

"On and after January 8th, 1894, eligibility to Hereditary Mem- 
bership shall be restricted and limited to the proper descendants of 
Commissioned Officers, Aides-de-Camp, and Commanding Officers 
of private armed vessels of the United States, comprehended and 
described in Section I. of this article ; and to the proper descendants 
of Original and Hereditary Members of this Institution heretofore 
duly admitted ; and to the proper descendants of Original Members 
in military societies formed prior to January 8th, 1856, by men who 
served in the armies and navies of the United States in the War 
of 181 2 ; and to Hereditary Members heretofore admitted in such 
military societies and their proper descendants ; and to the proper 
descendants of the veteran delegates ; and to the proper descendants 
of the veteran delegates to the national conventions of the soldiers 
of the War of 18 12, held respectively in the city of Philadelphia on 
January 9th, 1854, ^^^ ^^ the city of Washington on January 8th, 
1855 ; provided, the actual military or sea service of the Original 
Member or propositus from whom descent is derived, were such as 



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would have made him eligible to Original Membership in this Insti- 
tution, and none other shall be eligible to Hereditary Membership." 
"HONORARY MEMBfcRS. 
"The President and Ex-Presidents of the United States, the 
Vice-President and Ex-Vice-Presidents of the United States, the 
Judges of the Supreme and Circuit Courts of the United States, 
General Officers of the Army of the United States, not below the 
rank of Major- General, Flag Officers of the Navy of the United 
States, not below the rank of Rear Admiral, General Officers of the 
Society of the Cincinnati and Presidents of the State Societies of 
that Order, and Citizens who have received the formal approbation 
of the Congress of the United States for distinguished conduct or 
eminent services, shall alone be eligible to Honorary Membership." 

THE Sons of Delaware. 

Organized January 27th, 1892. Incorporated April 9th, 1892. 
" OBJECTS. 

" I. To promote social intercourse among Delawareans, by birth 
or ancestry, residing or located in the State of Pennsylvania and ad- 
jacent territory. 

"2. To tender hospitality and manifest friendship toward Dela- 
wareans when they may be temporarily sojourning in the City of 
Philadelphia. 

''3. To collect, preserve, and disseminate information relating 
to the history, folk-lore, and conditions of the people and relating to 
the institutions of the State of Delaware. ' ' 

"ELIGIBILITY. 
Membership in this organization may be active or honorary. 
''Active. — The applicant must be above the age of twenty-one 
years. He must have been born in the State of Pelaware, or he 
must have been born of parents or grand-parents one of whom was 
born in the State of Delaware, or he must have been a resident of 
the State of Delaware for a continuous period of ten years, or pos- 
sess such other qualifications as the Board of Governors shall deem 
within the scope and purposes of this organization. 



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''Honorary. — Honorary membership shall consist of such per- 
sons as this organization shall desire to honor by reason of some 
deserved distinction concerning the State of Delaware or the pur- 
poses of this organization." 

THE ST. Nicholas Society of the City of New York. 

Organized February 28th, 1835. Incorporated April 17th, 1841. 
" OBJECTS. 
**To collect and preserve information respecting the history of 
the City of New York and to promote social intercourse among its 
native citizens, as well as to engage in certain relief-work. ' ' 

"ELIGIBILITY. 
' * Any person of full age in respectable standing in society, of 
good moral character, who was a native or resident of the city or 
State of New York prior to the year 1785, or who is the descendant 
of any such native or resident, or who is a descendant of a member 
of this Society, shall be eligible as a member. But whenever, and 
as long as there shall be six hundred and fifty members of the Soci- 
ety no one shall be elected to membership unless he be the descendant 
in the oldest male line of a member or former member, and in all 
elections to membership the ballot shall be first taken on the candi- 
dates who may be the descendants of members." 

United States daughters— 1776-1812. 

Incorporated 1892. 
"OBJECTS. 

* * To secure the genealogies, facts, and traditions of the Founders 

of America In the French War, in the Revolution, and the War of 

1812." 

"ELIGIBILITY. 

"Ladies eligible to membership In the Society, U.S.D., 1776- 

181 2, must be lineal descendants from an ancestor who assisted in the 

War of 1776-18 1 2, either as a military or naval officer, a soldier, or 

a sailor, or In any way gave aid to the cause, provided always that 

the Society reserves to itself the privilege of rejecting any nomination 

that may not be acceptable to it," 



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WOMAN'S Relief Corps. 

Auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic. 
"OBJECTS. 

" Section i. To specially aid and assist the Grand Army of the 
Republic and to perpetuate the memory of their heroic dead. 

" Section 2. To assist such Union veterans as need our help and 
protection, and to extend needful aid to their widows and orphans; 
to find them homes and employment, and assure them of sympathy 
and friends; to cherish and emulate the deeds of our army nurses, 
and of all loyal women who rendered loving service to our country in 
her hour of peril. 

** Section 3. To maintain true allegiance to the United States of 
America; to inculcate lessons of patriotism and love of country 
among our children and in the communities in which we live, and 
encourage the spread of universal liberty and equal rights to all. ' ' 

" ELIGIBILITY. 

' ' Women of good moral character and correct deportment, who 
have not given aid and comfort to the enemies of the Union, who 
would perpetuate the principles to which this association stands 
pledged, and who have attained the age of sixteen years, shall be 
eligible to membership in the Woman's Relief Corps." 

THE COLONIAL SOCIETY. 

Instituted 1890. Reorganized November 12th, 1895. 

"OBJECTS. 

** To cherish and perpetuate the memory of our Colonial Ances- 
tors; to further the proper celebration of anniversaries connected with 
the settlement of any Colony in North America (now the United 
States) and to collect, preserve, and publish records, documents, and 
manuscripts relating to the early history of North America and the 
genealogies of its settlers," 



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"ELIGIBILITY. 

"Any male person above the age of twenty-one years, of good 
character, who is descended from a male or female actually settled 
prior to the year 1700 in any Colony of America (now the United 
States) shall be eligible to membership. But whenever and as long 
as there shall be five hundred members in any one State Society, no 
one shall be elected to membership in that State Society unless he be 
the descendant of a living or deceased member In all elections to 
membership the candidates who are descendants of members shall 
have precedence in election ' ' 



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Acts of Congress 

Relatingf to the Insig-nia of War Societies* 



THE MEDAL OF HONOR LEGION 

Officers and Enlisted Men now in the Service, to whom Medals 
OF Honor have been Awarded under the following Laws. 

A Resolution to provide for the presentation of * ' medals of 
honor' ' to the enlisted men of the Army and Volunteer Forces who 
have distinguished, or may distinguish, themselves in battle during 
the present rebellion. 

Resolved by the Senate arid House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled. That the President of the United 
States be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause two thousand " medals of 
honor" to be prepared with suitable emblematic devices, and to direct that 
the same be presented, in the name of Congress, to such non-commissioned 
officers and privates as shall most distinguish themselves by their gallantry in 
action and other soldier-like qualities, during the present insurrection. And that 
the sum of ten thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out 
of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of 
carrying this resolution into effect. 

Approved, July 12, 1862. 

An act to make appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the 
Government for the year ending June 30, 1864, and for the year end- 
ing the 30th of June, 1863, and for other purposes. 

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the President cause to be struck 
from the dies recently prepared at the United States mint for that purpose, 
"medals of honor" additional to those authorized by the Act (Resolution) of 
July 12, 1862, and present the same to such officers, non-commissioned offi- 
cers, and privates as have most distinguished or who may hereafter most dis- 
tinguish themselves in action ; and the sum of twenty thousand dollars is here- 
by appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated 
to defray the expenses of the same. 

Approved, March 3, 1863. 



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CircuIafJ HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, 

^o* 2* J Adjutant General's Office, 

Washington, June 14, i8go. 

The Secretary of War directs that paragraphs 266 and 1829 of the 
Regulations shall not be construed to prevent such officers and en- 
listed men of the Army as are entitled to the distinction from wear- 
ing the button of the Grand Army of the Republic. 

By command of Major General Schofield : 

CHAUNCEY McKEEVER, 

Acting Adjutant General. 
Official : 

ARMY Regulations, 1889, 

I. 266. The articles borne upon the annual price list of clothing, 
published by authority of the Secretary of War, will be considered 
the " uniform," and no deviation therefrom should be allowed. 

II. 1829. The proper dress will be determined by the com- 
manding officer, in conformity with Army Regulations, and no officer 
or man should be permitted to deviate from it. When an officer or 
solier is permitted to wear citizen's dress it should not be accompa- 
nied by a single button or other mark of the individual's garb. When 
in uniform, he will conform rigidly to the requirements for the day. 



General Orders,) HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, 

No. J2I. j Adjutant General's Office, 

Washington^ October ii, i8go. 

The following joint resolution and act of Congress are published 
for the information and government of all concerned: 

I. Joint resolution granting permission to officers and enlisted men of 
the Army and Navy of the United States to wear the badges adopted by 
military societies of men who served in the war of the revolution, the war of 
eighteen hundred and twelve, the Mexican war, and the war of the rebelHon. 

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Utiited States 
of America in Congress assembled, That the distinctive badges adopted by 
military societies of men who served in the armies and navies of the United 



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States in the war of the Revolution, the war of eighteen hundred and twelve, 
the Mexican war, and the war of the rebellion respectively, may be worn 
upon all occasions of ceremony by officers and enlisted men of the Army and 
Navy of the United States, who are members of said organizations in their 
own right. 

Approved, September 30, 1890. 

By command of Major General Schofield : 

SAM'L BRECK, 

Acting Adjutant General. 
Official : 



General Orders,) HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, 

No, J33, j Adjutant General's Office, 

Washington, November 18, i8go. 

I. The following joint resolution is, by direction of the acting 
Secretary of War, republished for the information and government 
of all concerned: 

I. Joint resolution granting permission to officers and enlisted men of the 
Army and Navy of the United States to wear the badges adopted by military 
societies of men who served in the War of the Revolution, the War of Eighteen 
Hundred and Twelve, the Mexican War, and the War of the Rebellion. 

Resolved by the Seiiate and House of Representatives of the United States 
of America in Co?igress assembled, That the distinctive badges adopted by 
military societies of men who served in the Armies and Navies of the United 
States in the War of the Revolution, the War of Eighteen Hundred and 
Twelve, the Mexican War, and the War of the Rebellion, respectively, may 
be worn upon all occasions of ceremony by officers and enlisted men of the 
Army and Navy of the United States who are members of said organizations 
in their own right. 

Approved, September 25, 1890. 

In compliance with the above joint resolution the uniform regu- 
lations of the Army are modified, as follows: The phrase "occasions 
of ceremony," in the resolution, will include all musters, reviews, 
inspections, parades, and other occasions on which officers and men 
are required to appear in full-dress uniform. 



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The badges are to be worn on the left breast of the coat, the tops 
of the ribbons forming a horizontal line, the outer end of which shall 
be from two to four inches (according to the height of the wearer) 
below the upper line of the shoulder. 

The ribbons are to be suspended from a bar of metal passed 
through their upper ends and attached to the coat. 

By command of Major General Schofield : 

. CHAUNCEY McKEEVER, 

Acting Adjutant General. 
Official : 



CifcuIarJ HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, 

No. 4. j Adjutant General's Office, 

Washington, May 9, i8gi. 

VIII. Badges of military societies. — Officers of the Army 
who are members by inheritance of any of the societies referred to in 
the act of September 25, 1890, published in General Orders, No. 133, 
of November 18, 1890, from this office, are entitled to wear the 
badges adopted by such societies on occasions of ceremony — \^De- 
cision Actg. Sec. War, Apr. 25, gi — 4390 A. G. (9., i8gi.^ 

By command of Major General Scofield : 

J. C. KELTON, 

Adjutant General. 
Official : 



General Orders,) HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, 

No. 14. j Adjutant General's Office, 

Washington, May ig. 1894. 

Joint Resolution Authorizing the wearing of the distinctive 
badge adopted by the Regular Army and Navy Union upon all occa- 
sions of ceremony. 

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States 
of America in Congress assembled. That the distinctive badge adopted by 



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the Regular Army and Navy Union of the United States, may be worn, in their 
own right, upon all public occasions of ceremony by officers and enlisted 
men of the Army and Navy of the United States who are members of said 
organization. 

Approved, May ii, 1894. 

By command of Major General Schofield : ■ 

GEO. D. RUGGLES, 

Adjutant General. 
Official : 



Circular,) HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, 

No, 2. j Adjutant General's Office, 

Washington, February 6, 1895. 

II. Badges of military societies. — The provisions of 
General Orders, No. 133, November 18, 1890, Adjutant General's 
office, relative to wearing the distinctive badges of certain military- 
societies are applicable to the Regular Army and Navy Union of the 
United States, In connection with the joint resolution approved May 
II, 1894, promulgated In General Orders, No. 14, May 19, 1894, 
Adjutant General's Office. 

The button, as a part of the insignia, must not be worn on the 
collar of the blouse or coat, nor with the blouse. 

At the regular meetings of the military societies the badge or 
button may be worn, as prescribed by the by-laws of the societies. — 
[^Decision Maj. Gen. Comd<r. Army, Jan. 10, 95 — approved Sec, 
War, 13404, A. G. O., 1895. '\ 

By command of Major General Schofield : 

GEO. D. RUGGLES, 

Adjutant General. 



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selections, whether the order is for costly or inexpensive articles. 

GOODS SENT UPON APPROVAL. 

A selection of goods will be sent, upon approval, to any part of the United States at the 
risk of The Company. 

REFERENCE. 

Reference is required only from those not previously patrons of the house. Any National 
Bank or responsible Mercantile Agency will be satisfactory. 



DEPARTMENT OF DIAMONDS. 

The Bailey, Banks & Biddle Company are direct importers of Diamonds and Precious 
Stones, and having offices in London and Paris secure the advantages of large transactions 
and first selection. 

The mounting of all Gems is executed in the Jewelry Factory owned and operated by The 
Company, where the most critical examination is given all stones, designs, and settings. 
I'erfection is thus secured. 

Whilst the assortment of Mounted Gems is very comprehensive, purchasers desiring 
something especially elegant may make selections from unset stones and have mounted to 
special design. 

DEPARTMENT OF STERLING SILVERWARE. 

This department is constantly adding to its extensive line of all decorative and useful 
articles that are made of Silver, both Foreign and Domestic. 

Dinner Services, Tea Services, and Dessert Services, unsurpassed in design and finish, are 
shown in great variety. The superb assortment of Solid Silver Knives, Forks, and Spoons 
embraces all styles from the simplicity of the Colonial to the fullness of the Renaissance. 

Choice patterns are arranged in chests, and many beautiful individual pieces are cased. 

The variety of articles in Toilet Silver and Silver for the Desk is almost limitless. 

DEPARTMENT OF GORHAM PLATE. 

The Gotham Plate has become famous for its likeness to sterling silver and is desirable 
for its durability. The choice productions in this ware are constantly in stock. The Bailey, 
Banks & Biddle Company control exclusive patterns made especially for them by the 
Gorham Company which are not to be found in the stock of any other establishment. The 
assortment includes Dinner and Tea Ware and all articles for table service. 

DEPARTMENT OF WATCHES. 

Selections may be made from the finest watches of leading makers of Europe. 
In the assortment are Jeweled, Enameled, Full Carved Watches, and fine Timing Watches. 
Silver Watches for young ladies and boys are shown in great variety. 

Petek. The Special Watch is the most reliable Time Keeper manufactured. 
A circular of information will be sent upon request. 

DEPARTMENT OF GOLD JEWELRY. 

The Bailey, Banks & Biddle Company show a complete assortment of the season's 
styles, and many special designs in Rings, Brooches, Scarf Pins, Combs, Tiaras, Sleeve Buttons, 
Chains, Lockets, etc. 

DEPARTMENT OF GLASSWARE. 

The most skilled cutters contribute to the ever increasing variety of the Company's Cut 
Glass. Glass of beautiful tints decorated in gold is shown in a great assortment of styles. 



DEPARTMENT OF FINE PORCELAINS. 

The choice selections from the celebrated makers of Higfh Art Ceramics are here collected 
and comprise the most tasteful ideas in Vases, Clocks, Plates, Dishes, Cups and Saucers, 
and Lamps. 

DEPARTMENT OF CLOCKS. 

The Bailey Banks & Biddle Company have collected a most comprehensive stock of 
Clocks, from the massive Hall Clocks with deep-toned Chimes to Clocks in China and Crystal, 
oi most delicate construction. 

Many new conceits in dials and decorations are shown. 

DEPARTMENT OF LEATHER GOODS. 

This department carries a full and complete line of Ladies' and Gentlemen's Card Cases, 
Pocket Books, Coin Purses, and Letter Cases, in plain leathers or mounted in silver or gold. 

In addition are fitted Bags and Rolls, Satchels, Traveling Bags, Portfolios, Photograph 
Frames, Belts, Umbrellas, etc. 

DEPARTMENT OF BRIC-A-BRAC. 

This very popular department is designed to supply all demands for inexpensive Wedding 
Gifts. Here will also be found a lavish display of desirable gifts for Birthdays and Holidays 
and very little articles selected with reference to "just a trifling remembrance." 

DEPARTMENT OF INSIGNIA. 

The Bailey, Banks & Biddle Company give special attention to the correct designing 
and manufacture of Insignia, Badges, and Medals for Societies, Fraternities, Colleges, etc. 
Appropriate designs and estimates will be submitted upon request. 

DEPARTMENT OF HERALDRY. 

The Department of Heraldry of The Bailey, Banks & Biddle Company is under the 
direction of a well-known expert, an authority upon Heraldry. 

The Heraldic Library and collection of Heraldic Records owned by The Bailey, Banks 
& Biddle Company is the largest and most complete in the United States. 

Correctness is guaranteed in searching Coats of Arms and Genealogies and in designing 
and executing all work to which Heraldry is applicable. 

The facilities of the Department embrace the Heraldry of America, Great Britain, and 
the Continent. 

DEPARTMENT OF STATIONERY. 

This department executes the highest grade of Wedding Invitations, Reception Cards, and 
other Invitations for social events. Proper form and superior excellence of workmanship 
characterize the productions. All stationery is manufactured in the Company's factory which 
is thoroughly equipped for Engraving, Etching, Die Sinking, Seal Cutting, Printing, Stamping, 
Illuminating, Painting, Designing. 

DEPARTMENT OF REPAIRS. 

Whilst Diamond and Gold Jewelry repairing is the Company's specialty in this department, 
they also repair with the nearest approach to perfection Silver, China, Glass, Bronze, Fans, and 
all objects that require most delicate handling. 

DEPARTMENT OF DESIGNS. 

A corps of Artists, Designers, Painters, and Illuminators are constantly employed in pro- 
ducing new ideas for the various departments of this vast establishment. 

These Facilities present to all patrons rare opportunities for special and exclusive designs 
in Jewelry, Silverware, etc. 

APPROVAL DEPARTMENT. 

Goods will be sent on approval, for selection, to any address in the United States at the 
Company's risk. 

The Bailey, Banks & Biddle Company, 

Chestnut and Twelfth Sts. 
PHILADELPHIA. 



HERALDRY IN AMERICA. 

BY 

EUGENE ZIEBER. 

Historical, Practical, Complete. Size Quarto (8xii),95o Illustrations. 

Red Cloth, |io.oo. Full Red Morocco, $15.00. 

Published by 

Ube Department of Ijcvalbrs, 

OF 

THE BAILEY, BANKS & BIDDLE COMPANY, 

PHILADELPHIA. 



FROM THE PRESS. 

" It is an authoritative work." London Ex -Libris Journal. 

" All members of the Colonial Societies should be possessors of this authority." Spirit 
of '76. 

" The book does credit to the author." New England Bibliopolist. 

" It is a very valuable and timely work." Washington National Tribune. 

" A copious glossary and good index add much to the usefulness of the book." Atlantic 
Monthly. 

" Mr. Zieber's book will gain for him a very prominent place among historians." Trenton 
True American. 

"The work is so systematized that the laws of Heraldry are made perfectly clear." 
Pennsylvania Magazine. 

"This work does credit to Mr. Zieber and to Philadelphia." Lyon G. Tvlhr, M.A., in 
Wiiliam and Mary College Quarterly. 

" Mr. Zieber's labors are by far the most important that have been given the subject in 
this country." Philadelphia Evening Telegraph. 

" Mr. Zieber's work will be helpful alike to those who can trace their descent from Armigeri, 
and as a warning to those who cannot." Philadelphia Times. 

" It would take a long time to exhaust the interest of this work, and it will be highly useful 
for the purposes of reference." Philadelphia Public Ledger. 

" Mr. Zieber's book is an interesting work, but its highest value arises from the many real 
and substantial contributions which it makes to American history." Philadelphia Inquirer. 

" A great deal that is new to heraldic experts is to be found in this volume." Boston 
Courier. 

" There is a great deal in Mr. Zieber's work valuable to those who take a curious interest 
in Heraldry, to those who use Heraldry in Art and Architecture, and to those who contemplate 
with more or less seriousness assuming position among the arms-bearing families of the country." 

Nesc/ York Times. 



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